No, Kenyan MP Kimani Ichung’wah has not defected to rival party
IN SHORT: Viral TikTok clips falsely claim the senior Kenyan lawmaker has ditched president William Ruto’s party for former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for the Citizens Party. But the video is old, edited and used out of context.
Posts circulating on TikTok since early May 2026 show a short clip of Kenya’s national assembly majority leader Kimani Ichung’wah addressing a rally.
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