Marsabit Governor Ukur Yattani has said the reason why he ditched the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is because some of the leaders were being sidelined.
Governor Yattani said he formed his own party, Frontier Alliance Party (FAP) so that all the leaders in the Northern region can work together.
According to the governor, the leaders from the region were being sidelined by the big parties due to the small population of the pastoral communities.
“When we were on the opposition side we were marginalised and were not given an equal opportunity in the party because they said we had no numbers,” Mr Yattani said.
Yattani will vie in the upcoming general elections through his new party saying that his party will bring together leaders from different walks adding that the party will be used to push the agenda of all pastoral communities and boost their bargaining power.
Speaking in Loiyangalani, he said his party will support the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta in the August 8 polls.
“We will support Uhuru’s reelection because that is the wish of the people living in this region. The people were impressed with the recent development projects that had taken more than 50 years to be implemented, among them is the Isiolo-Moyale highway,” Yatani said as quoted by the Star.
The governor when he decamped was with four other MPs, 25 MCAs and more than 300 elders representing the 15 communities living in Marsabit county.
The MPs include Roba Duba (Moyale), Chachu Ganya (North Horr), Nasra Ibrahim (woman representative) and Joseph Lekuton (Laisamis).