As president Uhuru is working onhis administration making radical changes to improve the face of Kenya, so are political parties underground growing their stems to touch his position.
Regarding efforts being made towards the 2022 general elections, the Democratic party has picked a young blood to reorganize and revamp the party. The party’s National Executive Committee on Thursday chose president Uhuru’s ex-Principal secretary(PS) for transport Irungu Nyanchera.
The 37-year-old Stanford-educated technocrat was appointed as the deputy leader by thirty-two delegates.
On October 26, 2018, the delegates had passed a resolution to energize the party by injecting new blood into its leadership in readiness for the 2022 presidential elections.
“DP is reorganizing and re-positioning itself in order to field a presidential candidate in 2022,” the party chairman Esau Kionideclared in a statement.
Furthermore, he stated that the party had a presence in 36 counties, making it one of the national parties in the country.
According to Nyakera, by 2022, 73 percent of Kenyan voters will be under 35 years of age
Therefore, it was his view that the party needed to start speaking to the youth early including making room for them inside the party. He also stated that he didn’t mind understudying the old guard to learn from them.
He was selected to deputize the aging former cabinet minister, Joseph Munyao, who is expected to retire from politics soon.