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President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto will not seek re-election on the Jubilee Alliance Party (JAP), less than a year after the party was formed.
The two and a host of their allies had made it clear that JAP was their party of choice for the 2017 General Election while calling for dissolution of Jubilee affiliate parties.
But a series of mistrust, suspicions and wrangling among members of the governing coalition has led to the proposal for a new outfit, Jubilee Party of Kenya (JPK), by December.
JAP has faced a lot of resistance, especially from a section of Ruto's United Republican Party (URP) and lately Alliance Party of Kenya (APK) members who say there were no consultations about its formation.
Monday, a team co-chaired by Meru Senator Kiraitu Murungi and former Cabinet Minister Noah Wekesa, that is tasked with working out the merger of Jubilee affiliate parties, abandoned the initial plan to collapse them into JAP.
"By December 19, we shall have collapsed all the parties including JAP to join JPK," Kiraitu said. When asked whether they were changing the earlier position that the parties will merge into JAP, he responded:
"All parties will join Jubilee but the consultations are still ongoing." But tellingly, Kericho Senator Charles Keter, who is a proponent of JAP but did not attend Monday's meeting, downplayed the push for the new outfit.
"We are not unveiling a new political party but just changing the name, re-engineering and we shall retain the structures. It's not a conclusive process. JAP is a registered political party. We are not going to register another party as JPK," said Keter, who is also a member of the team overseeing the planned merger.
But even the new outfit is not welcome to Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto who has vowed URP will not fold up. Monday, Ruto told The Standard that he has nothing to do with JAP or JPK.
Source: Standard digital
The two and a host of their allies had made it clear that JAP was their party of choice for the 2017 General Election while calling for dissolution of Jubilee affiliate parties.
But a series of mistrust, suspicions and wrangling among members of the governing coalition has led to the proposal for a new outfit, Jubilee Party of Kenya (JPK), by December.
JAP has faced a lot of resistance, especially from a section of Ruto's United Republican Party (URP) and lately Alliance Party of Kenya (APK) members who say there were no consultations about its formation.
Monday, a team co-chaired by Meru Senator Kiraitu Murungi and former Cabinet Minister Noah Wekesa, that is tasked with working out the merger of Jubilee affiliate parties, abandoned the initial plan to collapse them into JAP.
"By December 19, we shall have collapsed all the parties including JAP to join JPK," Kiraitu said. When asked whether they were changing the earlier position that the parties will merge into JAP, he responded:
"All parties will join Jubilee but the consultations are still ongoing." But tellingly, Kericho Senator Charles Keter, who is a proponent of JAP but did not attend Monday's meeting, downplayed the push for the new outfit.
"We are not unveiling a new political party but just changing the name, re-engineering and we shall retain the structures. It's not a conclusive process. JAP is a registered political party. We are not going to register another party as JPK," said Keter, who is also a member of the team overseeing the planned merger.
But even the new outfit is not welcome to Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto who has vowed URP will not fold up. Monday, Ruto told The Standard that he has nothing to do with JAP or JPK.
Source: Standard digital