The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party has responded to former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua moments after he announced his resignation from the party.

In a strongly worded statement on Monday, May 12, 2025, UDA Secretary General Hassan Omar termed Gachagua’s move to resign as a futile attempt to cover up his incompetence.

“This is to acknowledge the receipt of your resignation letter dated 12th May, 2025, which you posted on your social media handles captioned as above. The UDA Party took note of the grounds of your impeachment in October last year. We moved with the stealth of national conscience to equally remove you as the Deputy Party Leader. Your belated resignation is a futile attempt to rewrite the facts of your incompetence arising from your inability to understand and execute the mandate of your office. You distinguished yourself as the worst of the tribal bigots to hold such high office in Kenya. I am sure Kenya will never again have your likes in national leadership,” Omar stated.

“Through your resignation, the Party has now fully offloaded a toxic, archaic, polarizing and viscous individual who continues to attempt to tear down the fabric of the nation.”

According to Hassan, Gachagua’s style of politics is archaic, banking on tribal support to win public sympathy.

This comes after Gachagua, in his resignation letter, accused UDA of wasting a Kenyan moment to take off economically, socially and politically, citing 12 sectors of the economy, which he says have failed.

“The grounds established by Parliament warranting your impeachment are given further credence by your inability to internalize THE PLAN as the most progressive socio-economic transformation agenda in the history of the nation, that totally reorganizes the social, political and economic architecture of our country,” Hassan stated.

“Those of your likes, beholden to medieval ethno-feudal class domination of the masses are steadily drowning in the deep waters of national rebirth.
As a tribal bigot immersed in the fog of political shortsightedness, you certainly did not appreciate the quiet revolution eroding tribe and class to afford the masses dignity as per the dictates of our constitutional order.”

Hassan has also welcomed Gachagua’s resignation, terming him as a divisive figure in the UDA party.

“Your shadoof methods reminiscent of the colonial relics of balkanization, seeking to cordone off and perpetually relegate a group of citizens into lesser Kenyans through your misguided theory of shareholding offends every aspect of THE PLAN. You failed to exhibit the shift from being a colonial auxiliary, who through hatred, in word and deed attempted and continues to attempt to sow the seeds of division in Kenya, into a transformative leader able to lead a modern and dynamic Kenya,” he added.

“Through Parliament’s constitution preserve to impeach, the UDA government rid itself off the worst tribal demagogue to hold such senior position in government in our history as a nation. Though inconsequential, your public resignation from UDA is a welcome announcement to the citizens that Kenya’s most divisive character is out and that UDA will always preserve the unity of the State at any cost.”

In his resignation letter, Gachagua said the purpose which the party set out to do back in 2022 was a lie, and that no nation can be built on lies.

“It will be recalled that, while affirming the Kenya Kwanza Manifesto, our presidential candidate then (in 2022), said, “It is my firm conviction that the unity, stability and prosperity of our country lies not in the greatness of men but in the strength of our institutions. Our United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party is founded on the ideology that the national aspirations – justice, peace, freedom, prosperity that we pray for, as we sing our national anthem, is a covenant that binds us to political inclusion and economic empowerment of all Kenyans.” As a party, and millions of Kenyans, we believed and trusted him and this statement. It was a lie. No nation can be built on a litany of lies,” he remarks.

Among the sectors that Gachagua lists that President William Ruto’s UDA has failed in include economic transformation through the hustler fund, agricultural transformation, housing and resettlement, healthcare, service economy and the development of ICT and digital superhighways.