Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro has formally broken ranks with the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), declaring that he has joined the opposition through his new People’s Party of Kenya and setting himself on a fresh political path ahead of the 2027 General Election.
The vocal lawmaker said he was moving together with members of his new outfit, in a move that confirms what had for months been the subject of rumour, side-talk and sharp political reading in Mt Kenya.
“Mimi kama Ndindi Nyoro na wafuasi wangu, kutoka leo, nimeingia chama inaitwa People’s Party of Kenya. As all members of the People’s Party of Kenya, we have today joined the opposition,” Nyoro announced.
Nyoro’s decision marks a clean exit from President William Ruto’s camp, which he said he left a very long time ago, while quietly building a new political formation of his own.
His move also amounts to a clear snub of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP), which Gachagua has been marketing as the dominant political vehicle in Mt Kenya.
Nyoro has instead chosen to take the route of building his own platform, a decision that now opens a new front in the region’s increasingly crowded political field.
The Kiharu legislator is expected to formally launch the party during a series of political engagements in Murang’a County and across the wider Mt Kenya region, where he will seek to consolidate grassroots support for the new formation.
Nyoro’s entry into opposition politics with his own party is likely to rattle the political calculations in the mountain, where several party leaders are already jostling for influence, numbers and the right to speak for the region.
His refusal to fold into Gachagua’s DCP now sets up a possible rivalry between the two, with each man seeking to command attention in a region that remains central to the 2027 contest.
