Impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Wednesday, October 30 attended the funeral service of his long-time friend Mwalimu Geoffrey Murugami in Limuru Constituency’s Tharuni village, Kiambu County.

Gachagua was accompanied by former MPs Peter Mwathi (Limuru), Jude Njomo (Kiambu) as well as Limuru Central MCA Josephine Nduta among others.

This comes just a day before a key ruling is made, even as he tries to overturn his removal from office, after impeachment by both the National Assembly and Senate.

On Thursday, October 31, a three-judge bench is expected to deliver its ruling on a case Gachagua is looking to extend orders barring the swearing in of his designated successor, Prof. Kithure Kindiki.

On the other hand, Gachagua has also filed an appeal challenging the decision by the same three-judge bench not to recuse itself from hearing his case challenging his impeachment.

The National Assembly has already approved the nomination of Prof. Kindiki as the deputy president.

The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) on Tuesday, October 30 announced that Gachagua will be ousted from his party position as deputy leader once the cases he has lodged against his impeachment are finalised.

UDA Secretary-General Hassan Omar said the party would not accept to have Gachagua as its deputy party leader due to the deteriorating relationship that he has had with the party.

“This is purely a political issue. There is no court that can give you leadership. The relationship is already strained and he cannot continue serving as the deputy party leader,” Omar said. “We were moving forward as a party and we had committed to uniting the Kenyans regardless of their ethnicity yet he (Mr Gachagua) is preaching ethnicity and that is why he had to go.”