UDA Senator Dismisses Party Resignation Calls Despite Gachagua Alliance
Murang’a Senator Joe Nyutu, a close supporter of former Deputy Rigathi Gachagua, has responded to calls to resign from the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) and seek a new mandate with Gachagua’s Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP).
The Senator spoke on Monday, January 5, confirming that he was still a member of the United Democratic Alliance party and asserting that he would remain there until he decided to resign on his own.
Despite his support for Gachagua’s party, Nyutu says he has no plans to leave the current party.
“I am still a member of UDA and I shall remain there until I decide to leave. I will leave UDA when I want,” Nyutu stated.
Senator Nyutu: The United Opposition should announce their Presidential Candidate in 2027.
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The senator has stated that, despite his political differences with the UDA party leader, the head of state has no right to force him out of the party that helped him obtain the Senate position.
The Muranga senator has been a staunch critic of President William Ruto.
Nyutu defended his position, noting that President Ruto used the same card when he was Deputy President and fell out with his boss, then-President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Ruto remained in the Jubilee party following the rupture, refusing calls to leave the party and resign as Deputy President.
Senator Nyutu now contends that these actions deprive the president of the moral legitimacy to call for the resignation of all UDA elected leaders who support Gachagua.
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“William Ruto has no moral authority to tell anybody to leave UDA because, of course, he differed with Uhuru Kenyatta in 2018; everybody told him to leave if he was not agreeable with government and he didn’t,” Nyutu claimed.
The MP states that he began criticizing the Kenya Kwanza government after discovering that the president’s priorities differed from what he had promised during the campaign.
Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba has also criticized Gachagua’s decision to remain in UDA, claiming that some of Gachagua’s remaining UDA allies are pushing her into joining the DCP party.
Wamuchomba, who initially supported Gachagua, has distanced herself from the opposition leader, declaring that she will stay a UDA member until 2027 and calling on Gachagua’s allies to resign from UDA.
UDA Senator Dismisses Party Resignation Calls Despite Gachagua Alliance
