Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi and National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula should not even be expected to agree to merge their parties into the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party.
The two lead the Amani National Congress (ANC) and Ford Kenya parties respectively, even though Mudavadi ceded his position to Lamu Governor Issa Timamy upon appointment to government.
Political analyst Martin Andati has predicted that the push on them to merge their parties into UDA will not work, as they are aware that it is only through their parties that they can remain afloat as politicians.
The commentator argues that the outfits are also their only bargaining apparatus and their only way of pushing for their demands in government and dissolving them will immediately place them under President William Ruto, the UDA party leader.
“Those [political parties] are what defines their ability to negotiate. If they are swallowed, then the President will run the show,” he has told The Star.
This comes amid intense efforts by UDA Secretary General Cleophas Malala to transform the Kenya Kwanza alliance into a single party, something he has said should be complete by August.
But some of the targeted parties, including ANC and the Democratic Party (DP), have already rejected the plan, noting that they do not intend on being part of it, neither now nor in the future.
Andati says that these party leaders know that they will be rendered voiceless the moment they allow Ruto to be the ultimate party leader and should be expected to continue resisting the plan.
“How will you have a voice, even to influence succession if you are part of that big train? It is not going to be possible,” he further says.
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