UDA slams Gachagua's resignation as 'belated and futile' in scathing rebuttal

The party's Secretary General Hassan Omar issued the stinging statement just hours after Gachagua formally severed ties with UDA, nearly six months after his dramatic impeachment as deputy president on October 18, 2024. 

In his resignation letter, which was shared on social media, Gachagua delivered his own devastating critique of the UDA, calling it "the most dangerous political moment" for Kenya and accusing Ruto's government of misleading citizens about its reform agenda. 

"The party has exhausted and wasted a Kenyan moment to take off economically, socially and politically," he wrote, condemning key policies including the controversial competency-based curriculum and university funding model as "incoherent and corrupt."

In its rebuttal, UDA referred to the former second-in-command as a "toxic, archaic, and polarizing individual," whose "belated resignation" was simply an attempt to "rewrite the facts of your incompetence." 

The letter referred to his October impeachment, stating that Kenya had been freed of "the worst of the tribal bigots to hold such high office."

Gachagua and Ruto campaigned together in 2022 on a platform of economic transformation, but their relationship deteriorated due to accusations of betrayal and ideological differences.

Since his impeachment, Gachagua has emerged as a vocal critic of the administration he helped create, recently banding together with opposition leaders Martha Karua, Kalonzo Musyoka, and Eugene Wamalwa to form a "new resistance" against Ruto's administration.