Raila Odinga Taunts Rigathi Gachagua Amid Former DP’s Troubles

ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga left a scathing parting shot for embattled former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua weeks after his impeachment as the feud between the two political adversaries deepened.

While addressing a crowd in Vihiga during ODM Deputy Party Leader Godfrey Osotsi’s Thanksgiving Ceremony, Raila took the opportunity to openly speak on Gachagua’s woes including the former DP’s impeachment.

Using his trademark riddles, the African Union Commission chair hopeful talked about ‘traps’ that were allegedly set up by Gachagua in government to ensure Raila was kept away from a possible collaboration with the Kenya Kwanza regime.

“A trap was set up to catch a mouse, but the one who set up the trap was the one who went down,” Raila said.

“He went to State House talking about how he was setting up a trap for Baba. He said there would be no handshake, no coalition government (Nusu mkate). Where is Gachagua now?” Raila added amid cheers from the crowd.

The former Prime Minister was referring to Gachagua’s infamous comments in the past where the former Deputy President suggested he had set up mechanisms to ensure Raila did not seep into government after emerging second best in the 2022 Presidential elections.

In August 2024, Gachagua claimed his ‘traps’ had been so effective that the first time Ruto met Raila post-elections, it was away from the country, thus limiting the ODM Party leader’s influence.

“My boss and I had agreed we set up traps so that Raila does not join the government through the backdoor, I would check the traps every morning and evening,” Gachagua claimed.

Once President Ruto and his former adversary Raila mended their political relationship, Gachagua admitted he also had to take a step back from his plans to block the ODM Party Leader from accessing the government.

“My traps were working very well because even that time they decided to meet, they did so in Uganda as they watched Museveni’s big horned cattle,” Gachagua told a vernacular radio station in August.

Since Gachagua’s impeachment, the former DP has seen his political resolve tested on several occasions. In the latest incident, his entourage was pelted with plastic chairs by goons who disrupted a funeral in Limuru, determined to quell Gachagua’s attempts to address the crowd.

The attack came a week after Gachagua said he had a big revolution which he will announce in January 2025.