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The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) has announced November 7, 2026, as the date for its ward-level grassroots elections in Kwale County.
The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) has announced November 7, 2026, as the date for its ward-level grassroots elections in Kwale County.
In a notice on Wednesday, October 28, the party said its National Elections Board (NEB) would oversee the elections across the county's wards, with prospective participants required to meet the registration deadline set for the beginning of November.
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"The Party's National Elections Board (NEB) shall conduct UDA Kwale County Ward-Level Grassroots Elections on Saturday, 7th November 2026," the notice read.
The party also set November 1, 2026, as the deadline for registration, giving interested members until 5pm on Sunday to complete the process ahead of the elections.
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"The registration deadline is on Sunday, 1st November 2026, at 5PM," the notice added.
Elsewhere, Kisumu County Woman Representative Ruth Odinga has said ODM will not enter into any coalition without a legally binding agreement.
In a statement on Wednesday, October 29, Odinga said it is necessary to have a binding agreement, even with the UDA party, to avoid repeating mistakes previously made by political parties.
She argued that in the past, Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) signed between parties have previously been reduced to'gentleman agreements' which are easily violated and without recourse.
Odinga blamed this trend as part of what fuelled the tension witnessed in the country after the 2007 General Election.
"The Waki Commission, which investigated the 2007/2008 post-election violence, recorded how unmet political understandings, including the 2002 MoU within NARC, fed the grievances that fed the crisis.
"MoUs have become such a challenge in Kenyan politics that they are jokingly referred to as “memoranda without implementation”. Today, voices from Western and Central Kenya are lamenting the very same experience," she stated.
Odinga opined that any coalition must therefore define its organs, its method of electing leaders, its dispute resolution mechanism, and even how it may be dissolved.
She called out the Interior Principal Secretary for claiming that the Luo Community must work with Ruto without any formal agreement.
The MP said that the sentiment reduces ODM to a Luo Party, yet it has a support base in Western, Coast, Turkana and even in Nyanza; it enjoys backing from residents in Kisii Nyanza.
"I reject, in the strongest terms, any attempt to present ODM as a Luo party, and therefore to suggest that the Luo are the ones party to such an agreement. It is troubling, and one reads bad faith," she added.
