- Speaking on Thursday, Malala said the party currently has 9.98 million members.
- He asked party coordinators to take the member-registration exercise seriously in their regions.
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UDA secretary general Cleophas Malala now says the party intends to register at least 15 million members by 2027.
Speaking on Thursday, Malala said the party currently has 9.98 million members.
He asked party coordinators to take the member-registration exercise seriously in their regions.
"We want to urge party coordinators that when you go back home, make sure you register members. The IEBC register has about 22 million voters and we would like, to have at least 15 million people as UDA," Malala said.
"So that when elections come we just ask our members to vote for us and we win elections. We still have about 5.5 million members we need to register to join our party."
Malala said UDA must win any election by a simple majority based on the weight of the party membership.
Since becoming UDA SG, Malala has been pushing for member registration drives in opposition strongholds, in addition to
He spoke as he hosted deputy president Rigathi Gachagua for a meeting with the UDA coordinators at the party headquarters.
Gachagua, exuded confidence that the party will be so popular such that it will share popularity with ODM in its backyard in Nyanza on a 50-50 basis.
"Nyanza itself, hii ODM tutagawa nusu 50-50 na tusukume ikuwe 50 plus one (this ODM we shall share 50-50 and push it to 50+1)," he said.
Gachagua said already, UDA has taken over regions where Jubilee and ODM were the most popular parties and the tide continues to shift in their favour.
He said for instance, Jubilee had 28 MPs in Parliament and 26 of them are now in UDA while the party's National Executive Council which had about 29 people has lost 24 of them to UDA.