Nandi County Senator Samson Cherargei believes that the new political parties that will be formed before the 2027 general election will not unsettle President William Ruto.

To Cherargei, the parties are formed based on tribal affiliation, and this, he says, will only accelerate Ruto’s possibility of winning the second term.

Opposition political figures Rigathi Gachagua, Fred Matiang’i, Eugene Wamalwa, and Kalonzo Musyoka are expected to form new parties or coalitions to take on the president in the next poll.

“It is unfortunate that most of these parties are regional and tribal. Whether they launch new political parties, I do not think that they will unsettle President William Ruto.

“I think now it allows the president to cruise at the highest speed to the second term because the opposition is fragmented. You have seen the former deputy president telling Matiang’i to form his own Kisii political party because even if they were fair, they would have joined the Jubilee Party, which was national, or even Martha Karua’s.

“All these political parties are now going to default settings of tribal and regional politics. It is very tragic because we are going back to discussing regional and tribal parties just to capture power,” Cherargei said during a morning talk show with a local TV station on May 15, 2025.

The senator believes it is very hard for the opposition to settle on one candidate as their flagbearer.

“This opposition will not be formidable because, from the look of things, Kalonzo Musyoka, Martha Karua, Eugene Wamalwa, Matiang’i, and Gachagua will never settle on any given candidate to face President Ruto in 2027.

“The new parties will just add to the number of regional and tribal parties that will try and isolate the rest of the country,” he added.

Cherargei called for the formation of parties that have a national outlook, giving examples of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), and even the Jubilee Party.

“Look at URP (United Republic Party) and TNA (The National Alliance) in 2013, we then collapsed them and came up with the Jubilee Party. Look at UDA and even ODM; they have tried to give the face of Kenya.

“Even if you look at political parties laws, parties should give the face of Kenya, but these ladies and gentlemen are just reducing their parties to tribal outfits because they imagine they have numbers.

“I think the launch of new political parties will have zero significance in the political landscape,” he concluded.