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Disunity rocks DAPK as petitions target Wamalwa, Natembeya

DAP- Kenya party leader Eugene Wamalwa and Secretary General Eseli Simiyu addressing the press after the party's National Management Meeting in Nairobi on August 1st 2025.[Collins Oduor, Standard]

The three and a half year old Democratic Action Party of Kenya (DAP-K) is in the throes of a bitter power wrangle pitting its party leader, Eugene Wamalwa and Trans Nzoia governor George Natembeya   

Tensions of this simmering row broke out in public yesterday. The DAP-K Secretary General Eseli Simiyu told a press conference after a National Management Council (NMC) meeting in Nairobi that there is "serious disunity" among members of the party. 

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