A section of Jubilee party legislators drawn from 11 counties in Rift Valley have come up with a comprehensive plan to ground the party as as it continues to face turbulence.
Jubilee MPs reveal 2 strategies they will use to ground Jubilee party as row escalates [Video]
New twist in Jubilee Party row
File image of MCAs meeting DP Ruto. A section of MCAs from Rift Valley have revealed a plot to ground the party
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Addressing the press after a meeting in Eldoret, the legislators drawn from 11 counties in Rift Valley revealed that they would compel all Jubile party members from their areas to suspend all subscriptions paid to the party thereby starving it of cash.
“We are going to withhold any subscriptions that we are paying to that Jubilee party” the legislators stated.
Should that strategy fail, the MCAS threatened that they woud mobilize their colleagues from across the country to Jubilee party leaders from office.
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Below is the video of the legislators addressing the press in Eldoret.
“We are going to force them out of office by not paying subscriptions and we are going to mobilize all Jubilee MCAs to go and eject them from those offices so that they know Jubilee has its own owners.” The MCAs affirmed.
Mistrust and tension in Jubilee as Uhuru-Ruto fail to meet for 3 weeks
The party has been through turbulent times over the last three weeks with 2022 succession threatening to tear it apart.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta with DP William Ruto on Saturday
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Reports indicate that the developments over the last few weeks have resulted in frosty relations from the President and his deputy, with reports indicating that the pair had not met face to face until yesterday when they met at the wedding of Meru governor Kiraitu Murungi’s daughter.
Well-placed sources close to the Jubilee party leadership confirmed to a local daily that “There is little communication from the two. There is some mistrust between them.”
At the center of the frosty relations is mistrust over 2022 succession politics amidst concerns that Mount Kenya region may fail to support DP Ruto.
Rival camps have emerged within the Jubilee party have been reading from different scripts with the battle for Jubilee’s soul taking center stage.
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File Image of David Murathe Courtesy)
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The latest wave of unrest within the Jubilee party was started by the party’s former Vice Chair David Murathe who insisted that DP Ruto should retire with President Kenyatta in 2022, threatening to head to the Supreme Court to block his bid.
In the wake of the remarks, a section of Jubilee party MPs demanded that President Kenyatta should publicly declare if his earlier pledge to have DP Ruto succeed him still stands.
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