David Murathe, the Jubilee vice-chair has revealed that the ruling party wanted Deputy President William Ruto and his allies out of the party.
Speaking in Murang’a on Tuesday, January 25, Murathe said the party would not have thrived with Ruto and his allies on board as they were continuously sabotaging President Kenyatta’s administration.
Murathe went ahead to accuse Deputy President Ruto of sabotaging the BBI, which he said would have guaranteed Mt. Kenya more resources.
“BBI was passed in the parliament and even the senate, but he went to court to block BBI which was adding us more constituencies under one man-one vote,” Murathe said.
The vocal Uhuru’s ally thanked the ODM leader Raila Odinga for standing with President Uhuru Kenyatta during the hard times
At the same time, the Jubilee party vice-chair revealed that plans are already underway for Jubilee and ODM to jointly unveil Raila Odinga as their presidential flag bearer.
“We were only after one thing, to expel them from our party. Didn’t we do it? Since our party is not fielding a presidential candidate, we are backing Raila Odinga,” Murathe said.
“We shall soon hold our NDC at KICC while the ODM will be holding theirs at Bomas of Kenya, we shall then converge at Nyayo stadium to announce our flagbearer,” revealed Murathe.
The plan by Jubilee and ODM has been given more weight after the President signed into law, the controversial Political Parties Amendment Bill.
The new law now paves way for the formation of the Azimio la Umoja movement ahead of the August 9 General Election.
The controversial law amends the Political Parties Act of 2011 by introducing the concept of coalition political parties, where a candidate can either vie under the coalition party or a constituent member party
