Deputy President William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party has said it will sign deals with smaller parties after the 2022 General Election.
In what appeared that the Ruto’s camp will not negotiate a power-sharing deal, the Tanga Tanga camp said it will only ink deals with smaller parties that supported UDA based on their performance in the parliamentary and gubernatorial in the 2022 elections.
“We are not going to talk about coalitions at the moment. We are focused on the Bottom-up economic model,” William Ruto said.
According to the deputy president, agreements made prior to the elections have been so difficult to break especially when an affiliated outfit fails to perform as expected.
UDA party Secretary-General Veronica Maina advised parties supporting William Ruto’s presidential bid to continue popularizing their outfits just like the UDA is doing.
“Let them continue building their parties as we build UDA to be a national party which accommodates everyone,” Maina said.
Maina accused some of the smaller parties which are supporting Deputy President William Ruto’s presidential bid of riding on the UDA back warning them not to come aboard with pre-election demands.
“These parties have been busy using our name to make themselves relevant by claiming that we have asked them to fold their parties and join UDA. We have not told anyone to fold tribal or regional parties,” she said.
Maina said the UDA party will not allow their partner parties to start demanding positions saying the UDA party was more than ready to face their affiliates in other seats.
“UDA is not in many coalitions talks and there are no plans. We are not going to give them a platform to start demanding positions. If they are supporting us in our presidential bid, let us meet as competitors in other seats,” she said.
