Democracy for the Citizens Party Secretary General designate John Methu
As Nyoro joins the People’s Party, DCP’s Methu fires back — and Kenya’s most contested political region fractures further with a year to go.
By Jane Njeri
Democracy for the Citizens Party Secretary General designate John Methu yesterday dismissed Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro’s newly unveiled People’s Party of Kenya as a “wheelbarrow” designed to dilute DCP’s grip on Mt Kenya, as the battle for the region’s 2027 vote escalates into an opposition civil war.
Speaking at former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s Wamunyoro residence during a visit by a Wiper party delegation, Methu delivered a pointed warning to politicians he accused of manufacturing parties to serve personal ambitions. “These wheelbarrows that are coming up, we know all of them. We knew they were coming. We saw one that was launched yesterday — it does not come to us as a surprise,” he said. “A wheelbarrow is a wheelbarrow, and we will deal with small wheelbarrows in the same way we have dealt with the big one.”
The irony was unmistakable. Nyoro himself, announcing his exit from UDA at Safari Park Hotel on Monday, applied the same label to the ruling party. “We left the government a long time ago and dissociated ourselves from the wheelbarrow party, UDA,” Nyoro told journalists. Having spent nearly a year in consultations with Gachagua, Kalonzo Musyoka, Martha Karua, Fred Matiang’i, James Orengo and Edwin Sifuna, Nyoro presented the People’s Party as an open house for opposition presidential aspirants, promising tours of Uasin Gishu, Nandi, Bomet and Kericho — all counties where he once campaigned vigorously for Ruto.
DCP is not amused. The party’s “One Mountain, One Agenda, One Party” strategy depends on consolidating Mt Kenya behind a single opposition vehicle, and Nyoro’s arrival threatens that arithmetic directly. Methu made the stakes explicit. “The people know who their leader is and the party they belong to,” he said.
With twelve months to polling day, Kenya’s opposition is discovering what every coalition learns eventually: the fight against the incumbent is never quite as fierce as the fight over who gets to lead it.
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