Linturi tenders resignation from UDA Party
By Arnold Ngure, May 14, 2025Former Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi has resigned from President William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA), calling the party a tower of Babel.
In a letter addressed to UDA Secretary-General Omar Hassan on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, Linturi laments that the ruling party has deviated from its ideals.
“Political parties are established under firm philosophies which bind voluntary members. Such ideals are meant to be lived and practised. It was the philosophy of UDA and its commitment to BETA ideology that I believed in to be a member and championed,” Linturi states.
Tower of Babel
“In realisation that the party has failed to live up to its philosophy, mandate, to its mission, to its values and to its objectives, such a party has no moral authority to bear the name of a political party. This is a party akin to the Biblical Tower of Babel,” he adds.
Among the reasons the former Agriculture CS is giving for abandoning the UDA Party include overtaxation, corruption and abduction of innocent youth.
“Over the past two years of its leadership under the Kenya Kwanza Alliance, UDA has shown total contempt to the people and the great Republic of Kenya,” Linturi notes.
“I do not wish, nor would I ever wish that any Kenyan would belong to a Party that is repugnant to its philosophy, a party that tolerates corruption, abduction and brutal murder of our young people, overtaxes Kenyans, a party that has no respect for women and children. A party that does not respect the constitution and the rule of law. A party that does not listen to the people,” he observes
Officially resigns
“It is in this realisation that I, Mithika Linturi, a patriotic Kenyan, tender my resignation as a member of the United Democratic Alliance- UDA with immediate effect,” he concludes.
The resignation comes just days after former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua tendered his resignation from the UDA Party following an acrimonious fallout with his boss, Ruto, which culminated in his impeachment on October 17, 2024.
Gachagua is set to unveil a political party, which he seeks to use to consolidate the Mount Kenya vote ahead of the 2027 general election.
The former second-in-command has the backing of People’s Liberation Party leader Martha Karua, former CS Justin Muturi, Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka, former CS Fred Matiang’i, DAP-Kenya party leader Eugene Wamalwa and other leaders.
It, however, remains to be seen whether the opposition alliance will hold together after choosing their presidential candidates for the 2027 elections.