Former Kakamega senator Cleophas Malala has hit the ground running just days after being appointed the Secretary General of United Democratic Movement (UDA)

The ruling party replaced Nominated senator Veronica Maina with Malala who was poached from Musalia Mudavadi’s ANC in a move that shows President Ruto’s resolve to form a singular party as he prepares for the 2027 election.

Malala has already floated the idea of folding all other parties allied to the Kenya Kwanza coalition even as he gave an August this year deadline.

He bases this on the premise that running the government agenda requires one center of command.

“You cannot be in the Cabinet and still belong to another political party. That is contempt to our president. All parties in Kenya Kwanza must dissolve, join UDA and have just one strong party” Malala said when launching the Kisumu UDA office.

This comes at a time when the party is preparing for a countrywide membership recruitment drive and election of party officials.

Kisumu County UDA interim chairman Francis Osenya says they will comb every village in the county to recruit new members in the region.

 

“So far we have registered close to 2,000 new members in this ongoing membership registration exercise across the county,” he said.

 

The idea of a single party has not gone down well with ome affiliate parties resisting the move which seeks the dissolution of Musalia Mudavadi’s ANC, Speaker Moses Wetangula’s Ford Kenya, Amason Kingi’s PAA, Moses Kuria’s Chama Cha Kazi, Alfred Mutua’s Maendeleo Chap Chap among others.

 

Malala says that he wants the party to be a benchmark of how to run a strong political party that will be strong for generations. Malala is confident that UDA will emerge and be at the levels of the Communit Party China, South Africa’s African National Congress or Tanzania’s Chama Cha Mapinduzi