DP Kindiki blasts Gachagua for ‘primitive’ bullying of Governors Waiguru, Mbarire

Former DP Rigathi Gachagua and his successor Prof. Kithure Kindiki during a past function. PHOTO | COURTESY

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Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has hit out at his predecessor Rigathi Gachagua, accusing him of bullying Governors Anne Waiguru and Cecily Mbarire and displaying what he termed as “primitive and prideful bigotry.”
In a strongly worded statement
released on Tuesday evening, Kindiki praised the two Governors as exemplary
leaders who have made the country proud through their accomplishments in public
service and politics.
“Governors Anne Waiguru and
Cecily Mbarire have done our country proud as exemplary and successful
political leaders,” he said.
“The two have variously held senior positions in public
administration and politics, outpacing the naive, arrogant novices trying to
bully them into submission.”
The Deputy President described
the conduct of those attacking the two leaders as regressive and warned that
such political posturing was doomed to fail.
“This primitive, prideful and
know-it-all political bigotry and misadventure will collapse on its head: it is
a matter of time,” he said.
Kindiki further called for a
shift in Kenya’s political culture towards respect and persuasion, rather than
ethnic mobilisation and personal attacks.
“In the 21st century Kenya,
democracy has to be about persuasion, respect for one another and canvassing
policy alternatives,” he stated.
“It cannot be about useless, dangerous ethnic chauvinism that
recklessly pits sections of our country against the others. Respect the people
and their leaders.”
Kindiki’s remarks come after Gachagua
accused Governor Waiguru and Kirinyaga MPs of being enemies of the Mt. Kenya community, maintaining his earlier sentiments that the leaders had sold their
community to President William Ruto.
Speaking during a rally in Kirinyaga County on
Tuesday, Gachagua dismissed demonstrations organised in defence of Waiguru and
Embu Governor Cecily Mbarire on Monday.
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