Garissa Township MP Aden Duale has lashed out at the Jubilee party over fresh plans to kick out Deputy President William Ruto from the party, likening the Jubilee party to a scrap metal.
This was after President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party said it will hold its National Delegates Conference (NDC) at the end of November 2021, where the party is expected to kick out renegade members from party positions and ratify the coalition deal with Raila Odinga’s ODM.
The deputy president, who is the Jubilee Party deputy leader, is expected to be shown the door following his association with UDA on whose ticket he plans to contest for the presidency in next year’s General Election.
But Garissa Township MP on Wednesday, November 3, said it will be too hard for the ruling party to amend its constitution to kick out the deputy president from his office.
“There is no way the constitution of a small party, of a scrap metal called Jubilee, will supersede the Constitution… You can remove us but the office of the DP shall remain until August 8, 2022,” Aden Duale said.
Duale further said the removal of William Ruto is well stipulated in the constitution including gross violation of the constitution, if he has gone bankrupt as well as if he has mental incapacitation.
He said William Ruto, whose relationship with his boss President Uhuru Kenyatta, has been shaky will still be the deputy president until 8 August 2022.
On Monday, November 1, Jubilee Party Secretary-General Raphael Tuju said the ruling outfit will soon hold the long-awaited National Delegates Conference (NDC) to effect William Ruto’s ouster.
“It’s in the Constitution that those who don’t subscribe to party policies are let go. That should concern you as much as it concerns us. The NDC is the highest party organ and whatever it decides prevails,” he said.
