{"id":17473,"date":"2025-04-01T06:53:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T06:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17473"},"modified":"2025-04-01T06:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T06:53:58","slug":"president-ruto-reveals-fallout-with-gachagua-that-led-to-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17473","title":{"rendered":"President Ruto Reveals Fallout with Gachagua That Led to Impeachment."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hq720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hq720.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hq720-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 686px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President <strong>William Ruto<\/strong> has opened up about the internal rift within the <strong>Kenya Kwanza<\/strong> coalition that ultimately led to the <strong>impeachment<\/strong> of his former deputy, <strong>Rigathi Gachagua<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during a <strong>roundtable interview<\/strong> with media houses on <strong>Monday<\/strong>, Ruto revealed that tensions began soon after taking office. He cited <strong>Gachagua&#8217;s confrontational approach<\/strong>, which resulted in clashes with key allies, including <strong>blogger Dennis Itumbi<\/strong> and lawmakers <strong>Ndindi Nyoro<\/strong> and <strong>Kimani Ichung\u2019wah<\/strong>. The growing hostilities, Ruto said, made it difficult for Gachagua to maintain political support, leading to his eventual removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the past conflicts, Ruto downplayed concerns about <strong>political tensions<\/strong> ahead of his <strong>upcoming nine-county tour<\/strong> of the <strong>Mt. Kenya region<\/strong>, set to begin on <strong>Tuesday<\/strong>. He emphasized that the tour is intended to update voters on the progress of his administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto has opened up about the internal rift within the Kenya Kwanza coalition that ultimately led to the impeachment of his former deputy, Rigathi Gachagua. Speaking during a roundtable interview with media houses on Monday, Ruto revealed that tensions began soon after taking office. He cited Gachagua&#8217;s confrontational approach, which resulted in clashes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hq720.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17475,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473\/revisions\/17475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}