Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka is set to host key opposition figures at his Tseikuru home in Kitui County tomorrow, May 29, 2025, as they aim to present a united front to select a single presidential candidate to challenge William Ruto in the 2027 elections.

In what organisers say is a meeting to agree on a ‘top-level deal’, the Opposition stalwarts will troop to Tseikuru after their last month’s meeting hosted by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua at his Wamunyoro home in Nyeri.

Kalonzo will host Gachagua, former CS Fred Matiang’i, People’s Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua, DAP-K chief Eugene Wamalwa and other opposition honchos at his Muuna home in Tseikuru.

The team is expected to sit in a closed-door meeting to draft a political system for making Ruto a one-term president and agree who amongst themselves is the most acceptable candidate to be crowned the opposition flag bearer in the 2027 General Election.   

This meeting comes a week after Ruto met over 1,600 Ukambani leaders at State House, where they deliberated on transformative development projects that the government plans to implement in the region.

At the same time, former Kitui Senator David Musila has told Kalonzo to stop using the Kamba community as bait for his egocentric gain.

Musila said that close to five million community members needed representation in the government, and their voices needed to be included in the decision-making process.

Musila asked the Wiper leader to give “politically enslaved” people living in Kitui, Makueni and Machakos a free hand to work closely with the government of the day so that they are not encumbered by intimidation and manipulation.

Tangible development  

The former senator said that in every five-year election period, Kalonzo emerges with a clarion call to the community to support his bid to State House, hence blocking them from accessing tangible development and other goodies from the subsequent government.

The former Wiper party chairman, who fell out with Kalonzo in 2017, argued that Kalonzo has historically blocked the community from enjoying the fruits of leadership from sitting presidents over the past 17 years.

Musila was speaking at a burial ceremony of a former Prisons Officer, Shadrack Mbavu Kalingwa, at Uvaita village, Mbondoni sub-location in Mwingi Central.

Musila turned to the mourners, who included Mwingi West MP Charles Nguna and his Mwingi North counterpart Paul Nzengu, asking Kalonzo to emulate ODM leader Raila Odinga.

“Raila is a smart and calculative politician who quickly joins the government of the day after elections to allow his region and people to reap available opportunities,” he said.