Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for the Citizens’ Party (DCP) has unveiled a youth-driven campaign strategy as it seeks to build momentum ahead of the 2027 General Elections.

Speaking on Wednesday, 5 November, at the party’s Nairobi headquarters, DCP Youth Leader Wanjiku Thiga announced an ambitious plan to train, mentor, and mobilise young leaders across the country. The initiative, she said, would mark “a turning point in how Kenya’s politics engages its youth.”

“We are the generation that refuses to be silenced,” Thiga declared to applause. “The ones who know that our revolution will not be televised; it will be organised.”

The event was attended by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, DCP Deputy Leader Cleophas Malala, and other senior officials. The highlight of the launch was the introduction of the DCP Youth Training Manual — a guidebook Thiga described as “the political bible” for aspiring youth leaders.

“From this, we shall build capacity, sharpen minds, and create a new breed of leaders — unbought, unbowed, and unstoppable,” she said.

Under the new plan, the DCP aims to train more than 300 young aspirants ahead of the 2027 elections, establish youth offices in all 47 counties, and mobilise at least three million youth votes. The party also plans to set up university and college chapters to strengthen its grassroots network.

Thiga noted that youth representation in Parliament remains disproportionately low, with only 52 of 330 MPs aged under 35. “We intend to change that,” she said. “It’s time for young Kenyans to take their rightful place at the table.”

She also urged the party’s leadership to waive nomination fees for young aspirants, saying financial barriers continue to lock out promising candidates.

The DCP youth wing further vowed to champion gender equality, with Thiga highlighting that just 12 out of 1,450 elected MCAs are young women. “Achieving the two-thirds gender rule is not a constitutional burden but a moral duty,” she said. “We will ensure young women stand shoulder to shoulder with young men in leadership.”

As Gachagua’s DCP positions itself as a youthful, reform-minded alternative in Kenya’s shifting political landscape, the party’s new strategy signals a clear intent: to make the youth vote not just a statistic — but a movement.