Ruto, Gachagua meet Muranga’a MCAs
By David Nthua, September 12, 2025President William Ruto and his former Deputy Rigathi Gachagua, on Friday, September 12, 2025, separately met with groups of Murang’a MCAs in yet another show of the growing political rift within the county.
While Gachagua’s meeting with select ward reps was marked by fiery remarks from Murang’a Senator Joe Nyutu, President Ruto hosted a different team at State House, Nairobi, alongside Deputy President Kithure Kindiki.
Gachagua, during the meeting, slammed the section of MCAs who met Ruto at State House as traitors.
Speaking after Gachagua’s session, Senator Joe Nyutu dismissed claims that Murang’a MPs had boycotted the meeting, insisting it was an assembly affair that only required his presence as the county’s senator.
“To all Murang’a leaders and the whole assembly,. It was an assembly matter, which is why they invited me as the senator of the county. The senator has the seat in the assembly, and that is why it is only the senator who is here; other leaders aren’t here,” Nyutu said.
The senator accused President Ruto of trying to sway local leaders away from Gachagua’s camp through the State House meeting.
“President William Ruto doesn’t need to call people to the State House to know what Murang’a needs. He called people to the State House to bribe them in an attempt to sway them from Gachagua’s camp,” Nyutu claimed, as the political fault lines in the county deepened.
Ruto hosts leaders at State House
At the same time, President Ruto and Deputy President Kithure Kindiki welcomed another delegation of Murang’a grassroots leaders at State House, Nairobi.
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Kindiki, in a statement posted on Facebook, said the meeting focused on development programmes in the region.
“At State House, Nairobi, I joined President William Samoei Ruto for a consultative engagement with grassroots leaders from Murang’a County and a review of progress in the implementation of national government priority development projects and programmes in the county,” Kindiki wrote.
The back-to-back meetings underscore Murang’a’s significance in the country’s shifting political landscape, with both Ruto and Gachagua keen to tighten their grip on the county’s influential vote bloc.