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"We haven't reached the point of saying we are dissolving parties. At this moment we want to support President William Ruto until 2032."

The Amani National Congress (ANC) party has maintained it will not solve to join President William Ruto’s UDA Party. 

In a statement on Thursday, September 14, Kakamega County Minority Leader David Ndakwa said the Kenya Kwanza coalition is made up of many parties, unlike Azimio. 

"We are not dissolving the ANC party. Kenya Kwanza is a coalition of parties, and we came together to share ideas as a coalition. We are not like Azimio, which is a single party,” Ndakwa stated.

He noted that Kenyan politics I still local and breaking the ANC party will limit Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi’s bargaining power in 2027.

"We haven't reached the point of saying we are dissolving parties. At this moment we want to support President William Ruto until 2032. By 2027, as the Mulembe nation, we should sit down with our respective parties to have bargaining power for another five years,” he added.

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File image of President William Ruto.

His remarks come days after President Ruto called for the merger of Kenya Kwanza affiliate parties to form a national party under UDA that will carry the interests of all Kenyans and unite the country.

"We are going to make sure that we build a national party that is going to unite the country, communities, and interests from every corner so that we can eliminate the politics of ethnicity in Kenya and change it to the politics of parties around issues that will drive the country into prosperity into the future," Ruto said on September 10.

UDA Secretary General Cleophas Malalah has also been urging ANC and Ford Kenya to fold and join UDA saying it will benefit the Western region.