Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has hinted at running for the presidency in the next 2027 general elections.
Speaking during an interview with Citizen TV on the JKLIVE show on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, Muturi said that while his decision to run for the presidency lies with the electorate, he will still consider it should Kenyans ask him to vie.
He argued that he had offered himself for the presidency in 2022, before he shelved his ambition and supported President William Ruto in the Kenya Kwanza alliance.
“Some of these things are the ones you need to leave to the electorate. Kenyans will decide these kind of things. If Kenyans were to ask me, why not? Remember in 2022, I had offered,” Muturi said.
Should he vie, Muturi will be among the candidates seeking to unseat President William Ruto, whom he seems to have since fallen out with following his stance on the abductions and extrajudicial killings. The fallout has seen the CS skip several Cabinet meetings months after he addressed a press conference calling out the government on abductions.
Justin Muturi’s Kenya Kwanza exit
This comes moments after the Democratic Party of Kenya (DP), a party affiliated with him, issued a notice to leave the Kenya Kwanza Coalition.
Muturi, during his JKLIVE interview, confirmed that he was aware of the party’s decision, saying it did not have to inform him of the intent to leave the Kenya Kwanza coalition because it is at liberty to make decisions.
“The party doesn’t have to inform me these days about the activities that they are doing because they do the normal things. The management committee and they are at liberty to make whatever decision they feel it is in the best interest of the party, and therefore they did not have to inform me about the decision to write to the registrar about the desire to exit the coalition,” Muturi said.
Muturi’s party issued a 30-day notice to exit the Kenya Kwanza Alliance, with Registrar of Political Parties Anne Nderitu confirming that her office had received the letter.
“Kindly take notice that our stay in Kenya Kwanza is no longer tenable due to prevailing political developments,” the notice signed by DP Secretary General Dr. Jacob Haji and dated March 7, 2025, read in part.
“The Democratic Party of Kenya, through this letter, hereby gives a 30-day notice to exit the coalition, as stipulated in termination clause 8 of the coalition agreement.”
Muturi further said that he had just learned of the letter after it had been submitted.
“I just saw the letter also; whether I am okay with it or not, it is a decision that has been made by an organ of the party that I believe it is authorised to make the decision.”
Muturi joined the Kenya Kwanza alliance through the DP party under an agreement signed in May 2022, making the party one of the alliance’s constituent members.
The DP delegates had earlier installed Muturi as the party leader during a meeting on February 22, 2022, but he resigned from the position following his appointment as the attorney general.
