Former long-serving Wiper national chairman David Musila said on Saturday he had not yet returned to the party.
Musila left the party in acrimony in 2017 and fell out with Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka after losing the primaries for Kitui governorship.
He believed he had won the party ticket but was denied the chance to fly its flag. Musila and Kalonzo have recently made up.
The former chairman told journalists that although he had reconciled with Kalonzo, the Wiper party must meet some conditions agreed upon for his return.
He said the key issue was whether he'd be given the Wiper ticket to take a second shot at the Kitui gubernatorial seat in next year’s polls.
The former Kitui Senator said he and Kalonzo decided to close ranks due to spiritual reasons as both of them were staunch Christians. They are guided by the tenets of forgiveness as prescribed by the Bible.
Musila added that since he parted ways with Kalonzo in 2017, both have been agonising and hurting from inside.
They had both been seeking ways to get back together for long in the interest of the Kamba community and posterity, he said.
“We have battled spiritual issues within ourselves because we are Christians. The Bible tells us very clearly we should forgive one another. Therefore Stephen (Kalonzo) has been agonising over how to reach out to me so that we can forgive each other and I was doing the same,” he said.
He said a meeting was spearheaded by elders and spiritual leaders where both agreed to apologise and forgive each other.
Musila was Wiper chairman from the inception until the 2017 break-up with Kalonzo.
After the nominations, he resigned claiming he had unfairly been denied the Wiper ticket in favour of the then-incumbent Kitui Governor Julius Malombe.
Speaking earlier on Saturday, Musila told mourners at a funeral in Musavani village in Tseikuru that both Kalonzo and he had agreed to set aside their differences in the interest of posterity.
He spoke at the funeral of Ruth Syuindo. She was the widow of a former security aide of Kalonzo, the late Benson Mwendwa.
Going forward, Musila said, he will be playing national politics from the same side with Kalonzo.
