He's Planning to Destroy You - Gachagua Warns Raila over Partnership With Ruto

Former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua has counselled ODM leader Raila Odinga to consider bolting out of his arrangement with President William Ruto, warning that it is ill-fated.

Gachagua claimed that Ruto's plot is to manage Raila to curb any opposition ahead of the 2027 general election.

He suggested that the president is dishonest in the arrangement.

Speaking in Baltimore in the United States, Gachagua revealed that the president confided in him from the outset that his plan was to decimate Raila's influence.

"What Ruto will show you, please ask me. He is pretending to be nice to you, but he doesn't mean it. If he conned me and the whole mountain, and the way we thought we were intelligent. He told me that he brought Raila close to him to manage him and give him money to silence him," Gachagua claimed.

He added that the division in ODM is also part of Ruto's objectives.

Gachagua referenced the current infighting in the Orange party, saying it is the working of the president.

"He told me, and it has come to pass, that he will be close to Raila and divide ODM right in the middle. Today, as we speak, ODM fellows are abusing each other. Those from Luo and Luhya communities are abusing each other. So Raila should be careful," he said.

He further observed that Raila's relevance and influence were already waning due to association with the president.

According to him, the former prime minister was growing unpopular by the day for associating with an unpopular regime.

"Ruto has made Raila to be hated; Luhyas, Kambas, and Kisiis have left, and the Luo community is divided. By the time Ruto is through with Raila, he will be a nobody in Kenyan politics. I want to tell him that Ruto will destroy ODM, and it is now happening. He will undermine him in the areas he used to be popular, and he will be a pale shadow of his former self by the time Ruto is done with him," Gachagua said.