Irungu Nyakera labels UDA tribal party after State House meeting with aspirants
By Ndiritu Wanjiru, February 6, 2026The Democracy for the Citizen Party (DCP) Nairobi Patron, Irungu Nyakera, has criticised the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) over the State House meeting, where the party hosted over 9,000 aspirants.
Nyakera has accused the UDA party of being tribal, arguing that over 5000 aspirants who attended the forum were from President Ruto’s backyard in Rift Valley.
Taking to X on Friday, February 10, 2026, Nyakera said that the UDA Party has repeatedly labelled the Democracy for the Citizens Party, DCP, as a tribal party, yet in the UDA meeting, aspirants from Nairobi County were less than 1000, and aspirants from the Rift Valley region were over 5000.
“UDA called a meeting in Nairobi at State House, yet only 968 aspirants came from Nairobi, while more than 5,100 travelled from Rift Valley to attend… and still they are comfortable calling DCP a tribal party,” Irungu noted.
Previously, Irungu Nyakera had slammed the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) for conducting grassroots elections in the Mt Kenya region, terming the exercise a waste of time and resources that will not alter the prevailing political mood on the ground.
On January 10, 2026, on his X platform, Nyakera compared UDA’s current efforts to the Orange Democratic Movement’s (ODM) failed attempt to entrench itself in Mt Kenya during the 2022 election cycle, a period when ODM was deeply unpopular in the region.
“UDA holding grassroots elections in Mt Kenya today is no different from ODM attempting the same in 2022 when it was deeply unpopular in the region. It is a pointless exercise that burns time and resources without changing political reality,” his statement said in part.
According to him, the outcome is predictable, arguing that party activities driven in an area where public support has already waned rarely deliver meaningful political gains.
Nyakera has questioned the labels against the DCP party for being tribal when more than half of the aspirants hosted by the UDA party came from one region.
Irungu argued that attendance at UDA events is largely driven by financial inducements rather than genuine belief in the party’s ideology or leadership. He maintained that such tactics may create the illusion of activity but do little to shift entrenched political loyalties.