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Revealed: DP Ruto to dump Jubilee and join UDA “Wheelbarrow” in 2022 presidential race

December 29, 2020 6 Comments

The Deputy President William Ruto has given a clear hint that in 2022 he might use another party to as his allies seek to register the ‘wheelbarrow’ party.

Registrar of Political Parties Anne Nderitu, in a special gazette notice yesterday, indicated that Party for Reforms and Development (PDR) wanted to be renamed United Democratic Alliance (UDA).

The party was also seeking to change its symbol from a bull to a wheelbarrow, according to the changes in the gazette notice of Number 11254, issue no 237 of December 28.

The word ‘wheelbarrow’ became a sensational political tool and statement after the deputy president distributed it to youths alongside other items.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 20(i) of the Political Parties Act, the Registrar of Political Parties gives notice that the Party for Reforms and Development (PDR) intends to effect changes on their particulars…read the gazette Notice.

The re-branding of PDR could be seen as Ruto’s strategy to begin forming a party for his first presidential bid.

Ruto and his allies have had run-ins with Jubilee Party and currently have a case at the Political Parties Tribunal over the appointment of the powerful National Management Committee they protested was done improperly.

The changes that were occasioned in March threw the party into a whirlpool, escalating a fallout that had begun immediately after elections.

Ruto’s allies have accused President Uhuru Kenyatta’s confidants in the party, including its vice chairman David Murathe and Secretary Genera Raphael Tuju, of making unilateral decisions on behalf of the party without consultation. Ironically, the party was established as Party of Action (POA) in February 2012 by Tuju before Ruto took it over.

In 2017, PDR endorsed incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta and also won four seats in the National Assembly and one in the Senate.

Before settling on UDA, there are about five political parties said to be winking at Ruto and are ready to offer him a running platform should his stay in Jubilee become untenable.

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  1. Anonymous says

    December 29, 2020 at 9:49 am

    Kenyans need to rewind their mentality, frankly speaking Kenya is anchored by agricultural economy, and should appreciate the fact that we are still in the century of agrarian revolution, the 17th century where wheelbarrow is a vital tool, but here we are, holding out our begging baskets to Europeans where their great grand fathers struggled to revolutionise thier economy, here we are, putting on their clothes and drives their expensive cars, yet even a sewing needle cannot be manufatured in Africa

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    • Anonymous says

      December 29, 2020 at 3:18 pm

      There’s hope for Kenya’s economy, particularly with the innovation of the Covid vaccines. We are a highly resilient country. Kenya will rise again. But it will not rise under Ruto. No!

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      • Anonymous says

        December 30, 2020 at 8:18 am

        TRUE. RUTO AND HIS BRIGADE OF THIEVES.

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  2. Anonymous says

    December 30, 2020 at 8:18 am

    Uhuru allies , please register, UNITED NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE ( U N D A ).

    wananchi wachanganyikiwe kwa dembe.

    Reply
  3. Anonymous says

    December 30, 2020 at 8:20 am

    U N D A ( KAZI BILA WIZI )

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  4. Anonymous says

    December 30, 2020 at 10:34 am

    Yaani some people upto now have not woken from the reality that Ruto won’t be president of this country? Not after what he has done to UhuRao.

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