Elgeyo Marakwet Deputy Governor Grace Cheserek has broken her silence on her fallout with Governor Wisley Rotich, saying she will not resign but is unavailable to run alongside him in the 2027 election.
Her remarks follow a recent public spat between the two leaders at an event in Kapyego, Marakwet East, where Governor Rotich is reported to have accused her of being petty in an exchange that laid bare the widening rift in the county leadership.
In a phone interview with The Standard, Prof Cheserek said she had reflected on their working relationship and made a firm decision to remain in office and serve the people who elected her, even as the political rift between the two county leaders continues to widen.
She said their working relationship was better in 2023/2024, when they consulted regularly and shared a common understanding of how to advance the county’s development agenda.
In that period, she said, it gave her hope that the joint leadership would deliver on the promises made to wananchi during the campaigns.
She contends, however, that things went south after 2024 and that the partnership has never recovered.
Since then, she claims to have faced intimidation and a lack of support from the governor’s office, which, in her view, has made it difficult to effectively carry out her mandate as…
