Bid to make UDA monolith party as Ruto flexes political muscle

The President sought to merge all the 18 parties within Kenya Kwanza including Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi's Amani National Congress (ANC), Speaker Moses Wetangula's Ford Kenya, Senate Speaker Amason Kingi's Pamoja African Alliance (PAA) and Attorney General Justin Muturi's Democratic Party.

Others targeted are Mandera Senator Ali Roba's United Democratic Movement (UDM), Laikipia East MP Mwangi Kiunjuri's The Service Party (TSP), former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo's Tujibebe Wakenya Party, National Agenda Party of Kenya, the Grand Dream Development Party, Chama Cha Mashinani, the Communist Party of Kenya, the Farmers Party, the Devolution Party of Kenya the Economic Freedom Party and the Umoja na Maendeleo Party.