Wetang'ula dilemma: Give up Ford-K party or Speaker's perks?

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula has resisted merging his Ford Kenya party with the ruling United Democratic Alliance. [File, Standard]

Amani National Congress’ (ANC) earthquake seems to have lost its force, with Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi strategically removed from the political equation in Western Kenya as part of the 2027 political landscape.

With ANC out of the way, National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula now finds himself in the crosshairs of President William Ruto, as he stands in the way of the President’s dominance of the Western block.

Wetang’ula, who has resisted merging his Ford Kenya party with the ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA), has attracted the ire of the ruling coalition, which has already absorbed Mudavadi’s ANC, a party that had been in existence for over a decade.