The party’s National Executive Committee approved a name change to Linda Mwananchi Movement on 8 October, and the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties began the formal process.
Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna’s plan to transform The Equitable Party into the Linda Mwananchi Movement remains blocked by a fresh legal challenge at the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal, preventing the formal completion of the rebrand ahead of the National Delegates Conference scheduled for 13 November 2026.
Sifuna unveiled The Equitable Party on 4 October 2026 as his political vehicle after leaving the Orange Democratic Movement.
The party’s National Executive Committee approved a name change to Linda Mwananchi Movement on 8 October, and the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties began the formal process.
The movement had earlier secured a 90-day reservation of the Linda Mwananchi name after the tribunal set aside an earlier refusal in late September.
Those steps have not yet produced a completed rebrand. Proposed alterations to the party name, colours, symbol and headquarters, together with amendments to the constitution and nomination rules, were placed on the agenda of the upcoming delegates’ conference. Two members who joined the party on 22 October have now asked the tribunal to stop that meeting.
Paul Kiragu Gachoka and Pamela Achieng Simwata, through their lawyer Eddy Otieno, told the tribunal on 10…
