Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka and DCP leader Rigathi Gachagua have moved to persuade Jubilee Party leader Fred Matiang’i against drifting into a possible political partnership with Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro, amid growing cracks within the United Opposition ahead of the 2027 General Election.
The two leaders met Matiang’i over breakfast in Nairobi on Sunday, November 8, in a meeting aimed at repairing relations after a bitter public exchange over Gachagua’s proposed three-bloc political arrangement.
Kalonzo and Gachagua are growing concerned that Matiang’i, feeling politically sidelined within the opposition , could gravitate towards Nyoro’s emerging People’s Party of Kenya formation and complicate the opposition’s 2027 regional arithmetic.
Kalonzo is understood to have played a central role in the reconciliation effort, keen to prevent another political centre from emerging outside the coalition.
Gachagua’s three-bloc proposal, which placed Mt Kenya under his leadership, Ukambani under Kalonzo and Western Kenya under Edwin Sifuna, had particularly angered Matiang’i, who dismissed it as ethnic arithmetic and “majoritarian arrogance.”
The opposition recognizes that defeating an incumbent requires an inclusive power-sharing formula that keeps all regional bases intact.
Under the emerging formula discussed by insiders, Kalonzo Musyoka is projected to retain the presidential ticket, while negotiations involve offering Matiang’i an influential position in a prospective administration and considering Edwin Sifuna as a running mate to balance the coalition.
