Emerging details indicate that Western Kenya has a new political party, only three years to the much anticipated 2022 elections.
The region is already in the middle of a fight, as Musalia Mudavadi's ANC, Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula's Ford Kenya and the Jubilee Party demand a portion of the vote.
Also present is former Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), with details showing that Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa has allegedly introduced a new one.
The new party; Democratic Action Party of Kenya remains unknown to many, but reportedly received its certificate from the Registrar of Political Parties on August 2, and has proceeded to fill the leadership seats.
While Wamalwa is yet to speak on his links with the party, it is likely to worsen the already confused region, which bad proved to be an easy one to convince over the years.
Currently, for instance, all the named parties enjoy some backing in different parts of the nation, unlike in the rather rigid Nyanza where ODM has locked all the others out.
Its interim chair is David Muchele, while Wamalwa's Personal Assistant Kizito Temba is the secretary.
This comes only 2 years after the CS merged his Ford People party into the larger Jubilee in the run-up to the 2017 polls.
However, weighing in on the development, Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa poked holes into the new party, arguing that it will further divide the already divided Luhya region.
“These different political ideologies are our biggest undoing,” he told the Standard on phone, Friday.