Pamoja African Alliance, the newest political party with it's base at the Coast has rolled out recruitment drive in Mombasa county in a bid to strengthen its grassroots structures in preparation for next year’s polls.
This comes just days after the party rolled out a similar activity in Kilifi county where it also opened an office.
Speaking during the launch of the exercise at the party headquarters in Nyali Mombasa, founder member Ibrahim ‘Babangida’ Khamis, said the party will help the region’s bargaining power in next year’s general elections.
He argued that all other regions are organizing themselves in readiness for the 2022 election thus the need for the Coast region to also organize itself.
"Our agenda as Coast people has not been well articulated in other parties. It is now high time that we carry our own agenda and solve our problems through our own party". said Babangida.
Babangida who was also the Republican Congress party secretary general, said the party(RC) will form a coalition with PAA once it's moratorium with the ruling Jubilee party lapses.
Republican party which is associated with Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala formed a coalition with Jubilee party during the last general elections.
Balala's former personal assistant Ben Furaha is the PAA interim Chairman.
Babangida charged "We have been squatters in our own land for so long . We do not want to also be political squatters."
Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi is among the leaders who have been on the forefront championing for a Coastal party an issue that saw him falling out with his ODM pry leader Raila Odinga.
