Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Thursday filed a petition to a court in Nairobi seeking to halt an impeachment process launched against him by lawmakers earlier this week, Kenyan media reported.
Allies of Kenyan President William Ruto launched a motion in parliament on Tuesday to impeach Gachagua, accusing him of stirring ethnic hatred, undermining the government.
Gachagua says he has been sidelined and has denied accusations by Ruto allies that he was behind violent anti-government protests earlier this year.
In the petition filed on Thursday, Gachagua said the impeachment motion was a "choreographed political lynching designed to defeat the sovereign will of the Kenyan people expressed at the presidential election held August 2022," The Star newspaper reported.
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