Githunguri Member of Parliament (MP) Gathoni Wamuchomba has claimed that former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is intimidating and using insults, coercing her to join the Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP).
Taking to X on Monday, January 5, 2026, the Githunguri legislator claimed the DCP leader is using insults to try to get her to decamp from the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party and join his political outfit as alliances heading into the next general election take shape.
Wamuchomba however noted that she will not be joining Gachagua’s camp, adding that she will continue to pitch camp in UDA until 2027. She recalled the same treatment during the 2023 Finance Bill voting.
”Sasa Wamunyoro anatumia kifua na matusi to intimidate me to join DCP. I need to lay bare facts for him. When he was DP, he did the same to intimidate me when I voted NO for the Finance Bill 2023. God deflated him painfully. He “started” a party, which he claims is a “mlima” party, and all of us must join. Yet from ORPP records, he’s not even an official! Let alone a party leader,” Wamuchomba said.
She accused Gachagua of using the Kiambu County Senator Karungo wa Thang’wa in his tricks to woo her. ”He’s using Sen Karungo to demean those not in the “Mlima” party. Karungo is still a UDA senator screaming about another party. If really this party is strong, why can’t Methu, Karungo and Nyutu resign first then we elect them through their new masikio party? I’m not joining Maskio party, and I’m in UDA till 2027,” she added.
