Lamu Woman Representative Muthoni Marubu. [Courtesy]
Lamu Woman Representative Muthoni Marubu has decided against joining the ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) to defend her seat in next year’s elections.
“The intention is hereby withdrawn. Neither I, my team nor my political allies will participate in further UDA mobilisation grassroots elections or party activities.”
The MP, who had been elected as an independent candidate in the 2022 elections also accused Lamu governor Issa Timamy of undermining her efforts to popularise party in the county.
In a letter to Timamy, who serves as a deputy party leader in UDA alongside Deputy President Kithure, the MP alleges that the governor frustrated her efforts to build the party grassroots after refusing to pick her calls to organise meetings.
Timamy got the deputy party post after the party on which he was elected, Amani National Coalition, dissolved and joined UDA.
Marubu said that she undertook the assignment after she was asked to by President William Ruto as part of his re-election bid.
She said that she had organised 42 grassroots meetings across the county in three months of mobilisation for the party that did not clinch a single seat in the county.