In a candid moment on Radio Generation’s The People’s Breakfast today, Linda Mwananchi-aligned MP Caleb Amisi delivered a sobering warning that should resonate across the opposition and the country.
“People are saying ‘Tuungane bora Ruto aende,’ but in the process, they are being handed an even worse option. Rigathi Gachagua cannot be the alternative to William Ruto. What are we doing?”
Amisi’s assessment is both timely and damning. The impeached former Deputy President, constitutionally barred from holding any public office after the High Court upheld his removal, offers nothing but recycled bitterness, ethnic mobilisation and empty “Wantam” slogans. He has no institutional platform, no coherent policy alternative on the economy, debt, jobs or security, and a track record of flip-flops and selective tribal defence that undermines any claim to national leadership.
Gachagua’s post-impeachment project built on personal grievance, threats to non compliant Mt Kenya leaders, and conspiracy theories ranging from targeted persecution to Ebola plots has alienated even some within the broader opposition. His DCP has shed its multi-ethnic pretence, becoming a narrow vehicle widely perceived as serving one man and one community.
Kenyans deserve a genuine conversation about leadership alternatives, not a desperate “anyone but Ruto” alliance that risks installing a more divisive and agendaless figure. Amisi’s intervention highlights a growing realisation: uniting purely out of antiRuto anger could produce worse governance outcomes, not renewal.
Rigathi Gachagua is not a saviour. He is a constitutionally sidelined politician whose relevance depends entirely on keeping Mt Kenya in a permanent state of agitation. Kenya must reject this lowgrade politics of vendetta and demand leaders with vision, credibility and the capacity to deliver.
The message is clear: “Tuungane” must mean more than replacing one set of problems with another. Gachagua is not the solution. He is part of the problem.
