Rigathi Gachagua loves to preach “listening to the ground.” But in his Citizen TV meltdown with Yvonne Okwara, the impeached ex–Deputy President proved he doesn’t follow his own mantra. His claim that hordes of Gen Zs are his diehard fans and that he is Kenya’s 2027 savior has triggered a firestorm of ridicule, exposing the impeached tribal warlord as delusional and dangerously out of touch.
Instead of “listening to the ground,” as he so often preaches, Gachagua is being mocked for inventing a fanbase that doesn’t exist. Kenyans online dismantled his ego-driven farce, branding him a washed-up tribalist unfit for any ballot beyond his ethnic echo chamber. His venomous “Wantam” politics, they say, marks him as an architect of division – not progress.
“Who lied to Gachagua that Gen Zs like him and his tribal politics?” blasted one Facebook user, echoing the nationwide backlash as Riggy G’s interview crumbled into stammering evasions. Pressed on his supposed youth support, he mumbled platitudes about backing for his anti-Ruto crusade – but Kenyans aren’t buying it. On X, one user warned: “He’s hijacking Gen Z struggles for his vendetta. He’ll compromise this fight.”
The backlash only intensified after Gachagua declared: “I will be on the ballot… I am qualified.” His presidential fantasy was torched as ignorant arrogance. “In short, Gachagua anamaanisha yeye ndio leader wa Gen Z,” mocked one netizen, while others predicted humiliation: “If he competes with Ruto in 2027… Ruto will bury him in round one.”
Critics say the Okwara interview stripped him bare: no vision, no ideas, only bitter chants of “our people.” Far from the Gen Z leader he imagines, Gachagua is being written off as a relic of corruption and division – a poisonous has-been rotting in irrelevance, deaf even to the ground he claims to hear.
