Senior counsel and former Law Society of Kenya president Nelson Havi has joined Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for Citizens Party after months of speculation about his political future.
Havi’s move to the DCP party was confirmed on 4 February 2026, and Rigathi Gachagua, the party leader, announced the news during an important event at their Lavington, Nairobi, headquarters. Gachagua described Havi as one of Kenya’s foremost legal minds whose expertise will strengthen the party’s legislative and oversight capacity as it prepares for a nationwide contest next year.
Gachagua declared that DCP needed strong legal experts to support its functions of creating laws, representing people, and conducting oversight duties, which he used Havi’s profile to show that DCP would attract professional leaders who focus on particular issues.
Havi, who is a well-known Kenyan legal and political leader, has joined the party’s efforts to expand its presence in Nairobi County. He intends to run for the Westlands parliamentary seat in 2027 under the DCP banner, which he previously contested in 2022 on a United Democratic Alliance UDA ticket but lost to Tim Wanyonyi.
The political realignment that Havi now performs marks a major transition because he left UDA in November 2024 after he failed to win an election. Before joining DCP, he presented a short indication about moving to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), yet he never completed that transfer because party developments were uncertain.
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