Maverick or strategist?: Ndiritu Muriithi not boarding DCP
Former Laikipia governor Ndiritu Muriithi has now joined the next year's race through a new party...
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Ndiritu Muriithi, the Kenya Revenue Authority Chairman and former Laikipia Governor, has declared he will not join Rigathi Gachagua's Democratic Citizens Party (DCP).
- He will instead contest the Laikipia gubernatorial seat under the Reform Party of Kenya (RPK).
- Muriithi cited the RPK's philosophy of averting balkanization and isolationist politics in Mt Kenya as his reason for choosing the new party.
- This decision ends months of speculation regarding his political future.
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