Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has announced his official exit from United Democratic Alliance (UDA), as he gears up to launch his new party.
Gachagua has said he is in the race to become the next president should his opposition counterparts deem him the best candidate to unseat the incumbent, William Ruto, in 2027.
He said he will launch his much awaited party in the course of this week and insisted that it will not only comprise leaders from different regions in the country but will also field candidates for all elective positions.
In a letter to UDA Secretary General dated May 12, Gachagua said he has resigned from UDA with immediate effect. "I have made this decision in knowledge of the ideals of the party we believed in and so were millions of Kenyans, but now has turned out as the most dangerous political moment for the people and the Kenya in retrogressive philosophy of unfit class to govern our nation. "The party has exhausted and wasted a Kenyan moment to take off economically, socially and politically," he said in the letter.
