Former Bahati Member of Parliament Onesmus Kimani Ngunjiri has opined on the best way for President William Ruto to deal with his political rival Rigathi Gachagua.

Speaking on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, during a live interview with a local vernacular radio station, the former legislator implored the president not togive into the temptation of answering back his former DP.

Ngunjiri, in his analysis of the political back and forth between the president and his deputy, says that the president should desist from talking about his erstwhile.

Ngunjiri observed that silence on the part of the president would leave Gachagua with no political fodder to feed his politics.

Setting agenda

“I put a message to president and I told him don’t set the agenda for Rigathi Gachagua. If you go to western and start talking about him with your people, he wakes up the next day and talks back saying first look in the mirror before calling me corrupt,” Ngunjiri stated.

“When the president did stop for a minute, he Gachagua lacked agenda and you saw the back and forth subsiding for a moment. He later returned to it saying the people in opposition have no agenda and Gachagua was at it once more. The back and forth will achieve very little.”

The politician further asserted that Gachagua should tone down his sustained remarks about making Ruto a one-term president.

He argued that should focus on consolidating his own political base and votes and not to be appear to overly obsessed with fighting Ruto.

“Gachagua answering back won’t help him achieve much and so is singing the song of making the president one term. He needs to keep this to himself as he looks for his votes. If I’m president and you keep telling me that, it’s eye-opening. It is a message that is should work hard and try not to fall in that fate,” he said.

Reach out

Ngunjiri has implored Ruto to consult further and opines that he needs the wisdom and guidance of former presidents like Mwai Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta.

Ngunjiri cited the case of Kibaki whom he holds did not talk much but was ultimately hailed across the country as a president who steered the country in the best possible way.

“My message to the president is; reach out to the elders and bring them close. They can connect you to another level. You need the former presidents, you need the likes of Kalonzo and Gachagua. The beef you might have with them does not concern us. We want peace and development in the county,” he said.