Former Nyeri MP Ngunjiri Wambugu has continued with his attack on former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, stating that his relevance in opposition is limited only to his ability to charge Mount Kenya.

In a statement shared on his social media handles on Saturday, September 20, 2025, according to the former lawmaker, Gachagua’s only currency in opposition is being tired of charging Mt Kenya; without that, he brings nothing to the table.

Wambugu, who for the recent past has been on Gachagua’s throat, states that Gachagua knows that his stay in opposition largely depends on polarising the mountain against the government, and that is why his fellow opposition principals have endeared themselves to him, and that if he can’t sustain this, he is of no use to the opposition.

“Gachagua also knows his relevance in the opposition is based entirely on his ability to charge Mt Kenya. Without this, he is of absolutely no use to Kalonzo & Co. So he can’t afford the current reversal of his fortunes in Mt Kenya.”

This comes at a time when Gachagua is at the centre of the united opposition, which has joined hands to make sure that President Ruto is not elected for his second term.

Gachagua’s presidential quest

Though the united opposition have not settled on the candidate who will face Ruto in 2027, Gachagua himself has come out, though impeached, to declare his interest in the top seat, stating that Kenyans have settled on him as the most suitable candidate to unseat President Ruto, even going a step higher to seek blessings from his Mount Kenya backyard before embarking on traversing the country in search of support.

While speaking during a church service in Nyeri, he stated that he doesn’t want to overpromise Kenyans like his former boss did but pledged to take the country back to where the late former president Mwai Kibaki left it when education used to be free and the economy was performing well.

He also stated that during his tenure, he will scrap the affordable housing programme which was put in place by the current regime and hand it over to governors to manage and collect rent and pay back Kenyans who have been contributing to the programme under the housing levy.