Machakos senator Johnson Muthama has welcomed President Uhuru Kenyatta's move to form a broad-based political party that saw affiliate parties to Jubilee coalition dissolve to create the Jubilee Party.
Muthama said the move to collapse the alliance party that Kenyatta used to clinch the presidency with in the 2013 polls exhibited Kenyatta's seriousness to unite Kenyans through politics.
"Personally, I wish to commend President Kenyatta for dissolving his alliance of political parties to form a single political party. This indicates that Uhuru is even ready to lose his presidency in 2017 so long as he unites Kenyans," Muthama said.
"This country needs not more than three political parties," he added.
President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to seek his re-election on the newly formed party that saw him become its party leader with Deputy President William Ruto deputising him in the party ranks.
Senator Muthama was speaking on Sunday in a TV interview.