People’s Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua has maintained that she will not be a presidential running mate in the 2027 general elections.
Speaking on Thursday, Karua said if she is not the presidential candidate, she would rather support whoever her team will be backing.
“Personally, I have said if I'm not a candidate, I'm not going to be deputy. The deputy business ended in the 2022 elections,” she said on Hot 96.
Karua said that while she is working with other opposition politicians, they are looking at having a coalition.
She said the coalition will then choose who their presidential candidate will be and that if it will not be her, she will fully back the person that will be picked.
“Rigathi Gachagua, Kalonzo Musyoka and Eugene Wamalwa, those are my friends, we have worked together and we are looking at a possibility of having a unified outfit.
"We shall decide on one candidate, and if it will not be me, I will fully support whoever it will be. And remember there is only one president and one deputy president position.”
Karua first made her stance on not deputizing anyone known in January, insisting that she was done with the business of playing number two.
During the launch of her rebranded party, however, she said it does not mean she would not support any other candidate.
The former Justice Minister said she does not have to be in the ticket of the side she will support.
“I may have said I don’t want to be deputy, but that doesn’t mean I cannot support another candidate. I don’t have to be in that ticket, but I will put my 100% commitment, if I am not the candidate, to deliver victory to Kenyans. We must liberate ourselves from economic oppression,” she said.
In the last general election, Karua was Azimio candidate Raila Odinga’s running mate.
She later announced exiting the outfit after Raila started working with President William Ruto in exchange for the government’s support in his bid to become the next African Union Commission chairman.
Karua unsuccessfully vied for the presidency in 2013. In 2017, she unsuccessfully sought to become the Governor of Kirinyaga, losing to Anne Waiguru.
