Kiambu county Woman Rep Gathoni Wa Muchomba has abandoned Uhuru’s Kieleweke for Ruto’s hustler movement
Ruto welcomed Gathoni Wa Muchomba to his Karen home, where she was joined by Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung’wa and Githua Wa Machukuru (Kabete)
“She has been having that feeling that being in Kieleweke is not benefiting her because her ground, which got ruined immediately after she was elected when she demanded salary increment has never recovered and none of the president’s men were keen to help her salvage the situation which has seen her heckled severally,” a close confidant of hers stated on Wednesday.
Other leaders in the county, with the exception of Gatundu North’s Wanjiku wa Kibe and former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo, gave the campaign team a wide berth. Wa Muchomba, who is also dealing with a hostile ground over her past political mistakes, was also part of the campaign team that was inexplicably given a wide berth by other leaders in the county.
Last year’s event in Githiga, Kiambu, where she was heckled in front of Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho, was the final straw, according to the source, who claims that rather than finding a better way to redeem her political image, State House officials and MPs allied to Uhuru used it against her by claiming she was no longer helpful to the camp.
Sources told People Daily Digital that Wa Muchomba, Uhuru’s home county Woman Rep, was unhappy, claiming that her strong support for Kieleweke was not beneficial to her politically. Wa Muchomba was a beneficiary of the last year’s purge against the DP allies in parliament when she took over the leadership of KEWOPA and was also appointed vice chair of the lucrative roads committee.
The decision to join the DP comes after she kept a quiet role in national politics for months, and only days after her suggestive Facebook post in which she appeared to chastise the president after it was claimed in the media that he favours one of the Nasa leaders in 2022.
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