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How Gachagua's ethnic chauvinism will hand Ruto an easy victory

By Barrack Muluka | Dec. 7, 2025

DCP Leader Rigathi Gachagua, during an exclusive interview with KTN at his Karen Residence on October 5, 2025. [Benard Orwongo, Standard]

If a single individual could hand President William Ruto victory in 2027 elections, it is Rigathi Gachagua and his politics of Mt Kenya ethnic supremacy.

Ruto’s impeached former DP has immersed himself in ethnic centrism that is a far cry from the politics of the late Raila Odinga, against whom Gachagua would like to model himself. But can this man really be Kenya’s new Raila, even as he dismisses his colleagues in the Opposition as “press conference leaders”?

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