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People’s Renaissance Movement (PM) Party leader and Saboti MP Caleb Hamisi addresses the press in Chuka town, Tharaka Nithi County, ahead of his political engagements in the county. He is flanked by aspiring Tharaka Nithi Woman Representative Patricia Kagendo, Free Kenya Movement activist Bob Njagi, and Mitheru Ward MCA aspirant Lewis Mawira, popularly known as Say More, among others.
Saboti MP rules out any deal with UDA and claims three county MPs are ready to defect to his new party by December
By Dennis Mutua
People’s Renaissance Movement (PM Party) leader Caleb Amisi carried his party’s grassroots campaign into Tharaka Nithi County over the weekend, fellowshipping with worshippers at Kairuni Presbyterian Church of East Africa before addressing public rallies in Chogoria and Chuka towns — the party’s first organised foray into the Mt Kenya region.
Speaking at a press briefing in Chuka on Saturday, Amisi said PM Party was the only political outfit in Kenya that had avoided tribal association since the return of multiparty politics.
“Since the formation of multiparty politics, all parties in Kenya have been tribal. In ODM, you are told it is a party for Nyanza, while the Democracy for the Citizens Party has been associated with Central Kenya, Wiper with Eastern Kenya and UDA with the Rift Valley. When will we have a national party? That question has now been answered,” Amisi said.
Asked whether PM Party was open to working with other political formations, Amisi said the party would consider coalitions with parties sharing similar values, but flatly ruled out any arrangement with the ruling United Democratic Alliance.
“PM will join hands with other parties that look like PM. The only coalition we are not going to make is a failed coalition with UDA,” he said.
Amisi said the party’s central agenda centred on fighting tribalism, unemployment and corruption — what he called “the elephant in the room” — alongside reducing the national debt burden and upholding the Constitution.
He expressed confidence that PM Party would sweep all elective positions in Tharaka Nithi, claiming three MPs from the county had committed to joining the party by December.
On Deputy President Kithure Kindiki, whose political base includes the county, Amisi said the party respected him but urged him not to tie his fortunes to President William Ruto’s. He went further to extend an invitation to Kindiki to join PM Party, saying they could work together to advance the country, and maintained that efforts to secure Ruto a second term would not succeed.
Amisi said he viewed Tharaka Nithi as a significant launchpad for the party’s national ambitions, describing it as a historically important county in presidential election outcomes.
He was accompanied by party aspirants from across the country. Among them was Patricia Kagendo, who is seeking the Tharaka Nithi Woman Representative seat and doubles as the party’s national chairperson for women. Kagendo said PM Party had Tharaka Nithi’s interests at heart, formally declared her candidacy for the position and cited her own national leadership role as evidence of the party’s cross-community character.
“As women, we are in this party to stay,” Kagendo said.
Free Kenya Movement chairperson Bob Njagi, also part of the team, said young people were firmly behind Amisi’s agenda. Njagi added that his initiative to collect signatures in support of a referendum against the Kenya Kwanza administration remained on course, and said he would continue educating the public on the campaign.
Others in the entourage included Mitheru ward MCA aspirant Lewis Mawira Njeru and PM Party Secretary-General Antony Buluma.
The party is set to move its mobilisation drive to Kenya’s coastal counties this Friday, continuing a national expansion push ahead of the 2027 general election.
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