2027 Power Struggle Puts Opposition Alliance at Risk

By Our Political Affairs Editor

As Kenya edges closer to the high-stakes 2027 General Election, cracks are beginning to show within the country’s united opposition coalition, threatening its ambition to dislodge President William Ruto from power. While the coalition appears to have made progress in agreeing to front a single presidential candidate, it now faces a far greater challenge, convincing rival camps to rally behind the eventual nominee.

Political analysts argue that the opposition’s biggest threat is not the incumbent, but internal discord fuelled by ambition, mistrust and ethnic-based political arithmetic. Key opposition figures,Kalonzo Musyoka, Rigathi Gachagua, and Fred Matiang’i,are all angling for the top seat, and none appears ready to forfeit their presidential aspirations without resistance.

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