- He said that no one else can push such a motion to Parliament unless it is the President.
- The DP, however, said that in his case, it has not reached to that point.
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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has revealed that he has approached President William Ruto to discuss an alleged impeachment plot against him.
The DP is facing growing isolation amid an alleged impeachment motion in the National Assembly.
Gachagua said that the President dismissed it, saying that no one is capable of pushing such an agenda.
The DP further said that no motion of impeachment against a deputy president can sail to Parliament unless the President gives the nod.
"I spoke to him once, and he said that he has not heard about it, he doesn't know about it and according to him, it is foolish and no one can try something like that because it can destabilise the country, that is what he told me in his own words and thereafter, there was a meeting where he called the MPs, and the matter stepped down," Gachagua spoke at Citizen TV on Friday.
He said that no one else can push such a motion to Parliament unless it is the President.
The DP, however, said that in his case, it has not reached that point.
Gachagua added that anything contentious or with serious national implications will have to get the nod of the President.
"The matter has come up again, I have not asked him again, but when I get an opportunity when he comes back, I will raise the matter with him. I will say Mr President a meeting was held and what was said, what do you have to say about it? Mr President, you want us to destabilize this country? Are you part of what they are saying? The President will pronounce himself in the matter," he said.
President Ruto stopped an earlier attempt to remove the Deputy President, asking MPs who were baying for Gachagua’s blood to go slow on the plan.
At that time, the government faced the crisis of Gen Z protests and it was felt it wouldn’t have been politically viable to pursue the ouster bid.
Signs of Gachagua’s compounding woes became clear last week when 48 MPs from the former Central province threw their weight behind Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki as their kingpin.
This was barely a day after 21 MPs from Mt Kenya east declared that Kindiki was their link to President Ruto's administration.
Without mentioning the DP directly, the 69 MPs alleged they were getting a raw deal, accusing their representative of pursuing personal interests.