Is Governor Johnson Sakaja having some challenges in terms of managing Nairobi County?
Well, it is only the governor who understands the truth and where the shoe pinches but a revelation by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has left city residents with more questions than answers.
Gachagua has now revealed that Sakaja reached to him for support over issues touching on governing the city.
“I had a long conversation with Governor Sakaja on Sunday night and I told him the concerns with the leaders of Nairobi,” the Deputy president said in a video shared on X.
Gachagua went ahead, “Since I am a truthful man, I told him the concerns with the leaders of Nairobi and his electorates are not feeling part and parcel of his administration and the beauty is that he also conceded and he acknowledges that there is a disconnect,”
There have been internal wrangles at the City hall over house leadership which lead to split among the MCA elected on UDA.
The differences started in October 2023, when a different faction held a meeting and resolved to replace both Waithaka member Anthony Kiragu as Minority Leader and Minority Whip Mark Mugambi.
In their place Nairobi South MCA Waithera Chege was appointed as as the Minority Leader and Githurai’s Deonysias Mwangi as the Deputy.
Others appointed by the party were Joyce Muthoni as the Minority Whip and Mwaura Samora, as the Deputy Minority Whip.
Around that time, 35 out of 52 UDA Ward Reps appended their signatures on a petition to change the Assembly leadership.
Kiragu and Mugambi immediately protested the move at the UDA headquarters claiming that the signatures in the petition to remove them were forged then moved to court over the matter.
The court has since directed both parties that their issues can be solved by the UDA party.