The Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) will field its candidate for the vacant Malava parliamentary seat, party leader Rigathi Gachagua has said.

This comes barely hours after the DAP-K party led by Eugene Wamalwa launched propaganda campaigns in an effort to force DCP to drop its bid for the seat.

DCP has already picked and popularised youthful lawyer Edgar Busiega, whom Wamalwa had frustrated in DAP-K with nonstop demands for money until he decamped.

While addressing the media at the party’s head offices in Nairobi after a NEC meeting, Gachagua declared full support for Busiega and exuded confidence that he will win the seat by a huge margin.

Gachagua’s declaration puts to rest the propaganda that had been spreading on social media that the opposition had agreed to support DAP-K in the Malava by-election.

Gachagua announced that DCP would support other opposition parties in other areas, especially where those parties held the now vacant seats, but not in Malava, a seat previously held by ANC.

In western, DCP will only support DAP-K in Bungoma’s Kabuchai and Chwele.