Kenyan single-party system started to crack in the early 1990s. He was a founding member of Forum for the Restoration of Democracy alongside Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. The forum soon split, and Odinga formed the Ford-Kenya party, while Shikuku Ford Asili with Kenneth Matiba. The 1992 general election were the first multiparty election in Kenya since the 1960s. Matiba was the Ford Asili presidential candidate, while Shikuku recaptured the Butere MP seat on Ford Asili ticket.
