Nyandarua Senator John Methu has stated that a United Opposition principal with 5 million votes cannot deputise one with 3 million votes.
While speaking during the visit of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to the United Kingdom in London on Sunday, May 17, 2026, the outspoken senator continued explaining that a principal with a higher number of votes should be the flag bearer, followed by the one with fewer votes.
Methu further clarified that this does not mean that he has anything against the other United Alternative government principals, defending that this is clear logic.
He continued heaping praises on his party leader, labelling him as the engine of the United Opposition, with the rest of the bigwigs being the body. He said that this is the reason why they will not allow him to have a long stay in the UK, since he has to be in the country to continue giving the opposition more energy.
“I support all the opposition candidates, but a person with 5,000,000 votes cannot deputize 3,000,000 votes,” Methu stated.
Simply put, John Methu and Gachagua are saying that the Kikuyus with 5 million votes cannot have a Kamba guy with 3 million votes as their presidential candidate, forget the Kisii man. It is not rocket science to figure that out and Kenyans will deal with that when the time comes in 2027.
The weird thing about the Gachagua trip to the UK is that as soon as they arrived, they declared they have to rush back to Kenya and will only be in England for one week instead of one month.
The simple truth is that there is nothing for Gachagua to do in England and he knows what kind of a mess he was when they went to the USA and just turned himself into a Mungiki leader and it took some young Kenyans who came to his meetings to tell him to back off from his tribalism because that hurts their country.
Here is what Valentine Wanjiru Githae told Rigathi Gachagua in Baltimore.
July 27, 2025
“My name is Valentine Wanjiru Githae, and I am here representing the 625 Movement. And mheshimiwa, we are here to tell you the truth, and if we don’t tell the truth as Gen Zs we are doomed to fail, and Kasongo will be back in power,” she stated.
“You need to start positioning yourself as a national leader and not a tribal leader. I know many people won’t like what I am saying, but it is the truth. The first mistake that has been done in this event is speaking Kikuyu,” she added.
“I watched your speech about you in Boston, and there is something you said that the Kikuyu are more hardworking; we have grown the country. But we have done that because we are a beneficiary of Jomo Kenyatta,” she added.
Valentine Wanjiru Githae, directly confronted the former DP over what she termed as divisive rhetoric that undermines national unity.
She told Gachagua to reframe his political approach if he hopes to challenge President William Ruto effectively in 2027.
Wanjiru, who hails from Mathira—Gachagua’s rural home—criticised the decision to begin the meeting by addressing attendees in Kikuyu.
While acknowledging her own Kikuyu heritage, she warned against perpetuating ethnic-based leadership narratives.
“If we position ourselves as Kikuyu, another tribe will also do that, and before we know it, we are back to the same problem,” she cautioned.
Wanjiru also took issue with remarks Gachagua made during a rally in Boston, where he described the Kikuyu as the “drivers of the Kenyan economy” due to their hard work.
She argued that such statements reinforce tribal entitlement and ignore the broader contributions of other Kenyan communities.
“We cannot say that people from other tribes are not hardworking. We have that sense of entitlement as Kikuyus, and it has to stop. If I do not say that, I will not be telling Mheshimiwa the truth,” she asserted.
Rigathi Gachagua strongly defended his consistent focus on the Mt. Kenya region, dismissing claims that he is stoking tribal divisions.
“My daughter, if you follow what happened two weeks before I came to America, you will realise why I have to defend the Mt. Kenya people,” Gachagua stated. “Businesses for the Mt. Kenya people were targeted for destruction. In other areas, they were not destroyed. This is because they wanted to intimidate the people of that region into silence.”
Obviously Gachagua was shocked when a young Kenyan from his own tribe told him in his face that tribalism is bad and cannot work for Kenya if every tribe just grouped themselves as such for political power.
The big message from Gachagua and John Methu coming from their England trip is that they have 5 million tribal votes and have to be on the presidential ticket instead of Kalonzo Musyoka with 3 million tribal votes. That is Gachagua politics and it will not change until after the opposition is crushed out in 2027.
Our reality here in the diaspora is that remittances is a weekly business to help your family. It is mainly for health and education costs in colleges to help the young ones get a chance to make their lives better.
Kenyans send billions every year in remittances which is great for them and the country. The sad part is that Kenyans would be sending trillions to the country if those who are residents and citizens in other countries were allowed to buy equipment in the country where they live and bring them to Kenya for investment with no extra taxes on them.
I know this from practical experience. Five years ago, my family asked me to buy a tractor for them to do farming and construction. Here in Canada, I could get a very good tractor for a good price.
I found very good tractors and I was ready to go even for two tractors. After you buy them, you get a tanker to ship it to Mombasa and they have a good shipping price too. The nightmare is when you ship that tractor home and has to pay three different taxes which in total is more than the cost of the tractor.
We could not do that and ended up buying a used tractor in Nakuru and it is doing good now after fixing here and there.
The real issue is that Kenyans who are residents or citizens in other countries should be allowed to bring investment equipment in the country without extra taxes and they will bring trillions worth of investment equipment to the country.
That is what I told my good friend Dr. Shem Ochuodho sometimes back when he launched a project for Diaspora Kenyans.
Adongo Ogony is a Human Rights Activist and a Writer who lives in Toronto, Canada
