Malala Announces When DCP Party Will Be Launched
The Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) Deputy Party Leader, Cleophas Malala, has disclosed that the much-anticipated party launch will take place immediately after the party’s leader, Rigathi Gachagua, returns from his trip to the United States.
Speaking to Standard Digital on Thursday, July 17, the former Kakamega Senator announced that the party would be launched in roughly three months.
“We were waiting for the political temperatures to calm down, but immediately our party leader comes back from the US, DCP will be finally launched. Within three months, we will have launched our party,” Malala said.
However, Malala did not identify the venue or a tentative date for the launch, indicating that further information would be released soon.
Dcp Deputy party leader Cleo Malala Recieving and Unveiling DCP Party Candidates for Malava and Banisa Constituencies in the forthcoming by elections.#SkizaWakenya pic.twitter.com/dn3JyhC8wC
— DCP TV (@_DCPTV) July 17, 2025
In a subsequent press conference, Malala and other DCP officials affirmed that the party would run candidates in the next by-elections across the country.
This comes weeks after the party’s highly anticipated national launch on June 3 was postponed due to a lack of entry to Kasarani Stadium, where it was scheduled to take place.
Gachagua is currently on a two-month trip to the United cities, where he plans to popularize the party through city hall meetings in multiple cities.
Malala went on to explain that he was left out of the US trip so that he could hold down the fort in the nation and ensure that party events ran properly.
Since announcing the party on May 15, DCP has experienced a sequence of unpleasant occurrences related to its inauguration, which Gachagua had stated would be open to all Kenyans.
It was originally scheduled for June 3 at Kasarani Stadium, but Irungu Nyakera, the party’s Nairobi Patron, cancelled it barely a day before the event.
“The DCP party launch that was to be held on Thika Road has been called off, awaiting a new venue and date,” Nyakera stated on June 2.
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During an engagement with the Maa people on June 23, Gachagua stated that he would begin the party on Maa territory on July 7 if they provided a private space.
“I wanted to have the party launch in Nairobi, but they declined,” Gachagua said. “I want to ask you, if you will allow, to allow the event to take place in Maa land.”
The party’s deputy leader backed up this remark during a TV interview, but it would not come to fruition because the day coincided with the historic Saba Saba demonstrations, which killed at least 38 people.
This happened just days after posters appeared online indicating that the party will start during the June 25 memorial marches. The party later refuted the allegations as false.
Malala Announces When DCP Party Will Be Launched
