Kanini Kega Declares DP Rigathi Mt Kenyan KingPin
Kanini Kega the East African Legislative Assembly {EALA } member has declared Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua as the Mt Kenya Kingpin.
Christine Juma 
According to Kanini, speaking on Wednesday, November, 23 noted that Rigathi the former Mathira member of parliament was the right person to unite the mt Kenya members.
"Rigathi did well in uniting us, this is the only senior leader we have in Mt Kenya. We need to rally behind him as a region," Kega urged.
"I want to thank the DP Rigathi Gachagua who saw that Mt Kenya region will have a problem if we are not represented in Arusha, " he added.
He also bemoaned losing the Azimio La Umoja Coalition's backing in the contentious EALA vote on Thursday, November 17.
The former Kieni MP recalled the time spent supporting the coalition and the coalition's leader, Raila Odinga, in the lead-up to the elections on August 9.
DP Rigathi Gachagua. PHOTO TWITTER
"I thought my people from Azimio would support me but I was shocked when the voting was done. Some of them voted for people I did not even recognise,"
"I could not believe that would happen to me considering how I stuck out my neck for one of their own," Kega lamented.
Kega also made a suggestion that she might not always back every candidate.
Notably, the DP has described the strategies utilized to recruit MPs from the Kenya Kwanza Alliance and Mount Kenya to support Kega for the regional position.
Gachagua claimed that he backed Kega despite their political differences in an effort to bring the area together, stressing that it was time to move on from small grudges.
