Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka is headed to Deputy President William Ruto's Kenya Kwanza Alliance.
Emerging information indicates that the Speaker has joined the race for the Bungoma Governor seat and will be vying on a Ford Kenya ticket.
Ford Kenya, led by Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula, is a key member of the Kenya Kwanza Alliance. Other parties include William Ruto's UDA party and Musalia Mudavadi's ANC party.
Though the Speaker has not openly said he will on a Ford Kenya ticket, his interview with Nation hinted that Ford Kenya party was his next destination.
"The question of whether I am in the race or not doesn't arise any longer. I am firmly in the race with one option of winning," he told Nation on Thursday."
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"I will be having an earthquake in Bungoma town next week on Friday where I will be announcing the party that I will be vying on. But you all know that I have been working well with our senator."
Also, officials privy to the arrangements have confirmed that the Speaker will be officially welcomed to the Ford Kenya party next Friday at Posta grounds, Bungoma.
Kabuchai MP Majimbo Kalasinga, a Ford Kenya MP, is reportedly the chair of the committee organizing the event which the speaker has dubbed as "his Earthquake".
"The Senate Speaker is now a full member of Ford Kenya and we shall be unveiling him as our governor candidate in a big rally on (March 11) at the Bungoma Posta grounds," he said as quoted by Nation.
Lusaka' will be facing off with the incumbent Governor Wycliffe Wangamati.
Wangamati kicked him out in the 2017 polls and it is his time round to try his luck in ousting him.
