Fifteen small parties have now announced that they will form a coalition with Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta’s Kanu. The parties say the decision was reached after long period of consultations between them and Kanu. “We have looked around among all presidential candidates and resolved to support Uhuru and enter into a coalition with Kanu,” Onyango Oloo of Democracy and Freedom Party said.
He said the parties were informed by the constitutional provision which allowed for coalitions before or after elections. “We have signed an agreement which is binding us tighter and we'll be approaching the campaign jointly,” Stephen Nyarangi of the People's Democratic Party said. They were addressing a press conference yesterday evening at a city hotel after a day-long meeting with Kanu organising secretary Justin Muturi.
Chama cha Mwananchi, Party of Hope, Kenda, National Patriotic Party, Chama Cha Uzalendo, People's Party of Kenya and New Revival Generation are some of the parties who have endorsed Uhuru’s candidature. At the same time, the parties told off Prime Minister Raila Odinga over assertions that Uhuru and Eldoret North MP William Ruto should be in jail.
They said the PM would rather other candidates were in jail than face him in the polls. “The Prime Minister's stature does not allow him to make such ‘reckless’ statements to the effect that his competitors should be behind bars," Oloo said. “He should be ready to face them in the polls if he is a democrat that he has been calling himself over the years.” He said that the parties will soon make public details of their coalition agreement and will be seeking to get more parties on board. The parties said they support a December election date and not March 2013 as proposed by President Kibaki.
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