Former UDA Secretary General Cleopas Malala has lifted the lid on the intrigues that led to the alleged plot to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
Addressing the media, Malala accused Embu Governor Cecily Mbarire and Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wa of being behind Gachagua’s downfall.
He continued by also blaming the duo of first planning his ouster behind planning that of DP Rigathi Gachagua.
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“That this coup was plotted and orchestrated by two senior party officials alongside others within the party secretariat. These senior officials are Mrs. Cecily Mbarire, and Mr. Kimani Ichungwa, MP for Kikuyu constituency.
That my ouster by the above officials had nothing to do with incompetence or my inability to run the UDA party, but was a well-choreographed script intended to climax with the impeachment of the Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.” he said
According to the former Kakamega Senator, the two UDA leaders were not pleased by his relationship with the Deputy President thus the need to first remove him from his seat.
My close and inevitable working relationship with the deputy president, who is also the UDA deputy party leader irked them, and when their concerted effort, lobbying and coercion to set me against my Deputy Party Leader failed, I was effectively profiled and labelled an obstacle towards their evil plot and conspiracy to have Rigathi Gachagua impeached,” he said
The former Senator also distanced ODM for being behind his woes as he termed the installation of Hassan Omar as unlawful.