In the shifting terrain of Kenyan politics, former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has planted his Democratic Congress Party's flag in Nairobi, drawing sitting legislators and party officials away from Jubilee and positioning DCP to contest every corner of the capital in 2027. The move speaks to a recurring truth in democratic life: that political loyalty is less a fixed allegiance than a calculation, and that those who feel abandoned by power will seek new vessels for their ambitions. Whether Gachagua's gathering of defectors represents a genuine realignment or a temporary convergence of gr