Outspoken Mathira Member of Parliament Rigathi Gachagua has sensationally claimed that he handed President Uhuru Kenyatta money to campaign in the 2013 general polls.
Speaking during an interview with Citizen TV’s Daybreak show, the ardent Deputy President William Ruto supporter intimated that President Kenyatta did not question his source of money at that time.
According to Gachagua, trouble only began after he chose to support the DP. His remarks were a response to the President who termed his deputy’s loyalists as ‘wakora’.
“I stayed with Uhuru Kenyatta as his personal assistant. I gave him money for his campaign in 2013. He knows am a businessman. He never asked me the source then. All those years I stayed with him his government did not have a problem with me until I said I cannot leave Ruto,” the Mathira MP stated.
The DP ally went ahead to question the President did not abandon the second in command in the run-up of the 2017 polls. Gachagua wondered why President Kenyatta cut ties with Ruto after he helped him ascend to Presidency for the second term.
"If Uhuru Kenyatta, my friend and President Knew Ruto was a thief and cannot help him run government he had an opportunity in 2017 to change him and get another running mate but he waited until Ruto had helped him ascend to the presidency. Once he succeeded, he fought him very hard," Gachagua told Citizen TV.
Gachagua claimed that he has powerful secrets about the President but will not reveal them because he is an honest politician.
Ruto’s allies have been trading barbs with the President since he fell out with the DP and chose to support ODM leader Raila Odinga for the presidency in the August polls.
