The ruling party has explained how Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto will be kicked out of the party even as the 2022 General Election nears.
This comes at a time the deputy president has said he will stay put in the Jubilee party despite pressure from President Uhuru Kenyatta and his allies to resign.
Speaking to the Daily Nation, Jubilee party Secretary General Raphael Tuju said allies of President Uhuru Kenyatta will be meeting later this month to seal the fate of his deputy as the second-highest-ranking member of the Jubilee party.
“The next National Management Committee will address that matter. We will then make an announcement,” Tuju said.
The former Rarieda Member of Parliament said the party is exploring several legal options to kick the deputy president out of the party, a landmark decision that will render him partyless unless he makes his membership in UDA official.
He said the Jubilee Party will be moving to the apex court to determine whether kicking out William Ruto would automatically see him lose the Deputy President seat.
“We will move to the Supreme Court to be advised on whether the Deputy President is tied with the Jubilee Party deputy leader,” he added.
United Democratic Alliance Chairman Johnstone Muthama has however laughed off plans to remove Deputy President from his position, asking Raphaele Tuju to familiarise himself with the Constitution of Kenya.
“Jubilee Party Secretary General is one man who doesn’t understand the Constitution of Kenya 2010 very well. The deputy president was not appointed, he was elected alongside Uhuru. We all know who campaigned,” Muthama said through Twitter.
It is no doubt that the relationship between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy has deteriorated beyond irreversible levels.
Last month, the first in command dared his deputy William Ruto to resign if he is not pleased with the Jubilee Government.
In a meeting with editors at State House, the president called out his deputy for accusing the government of having failed, while taking credit for some developments in the country.
“I have an agenda that I was elected on and that work must continue. It will be hounorable that if you are not happy with it, you would step aside,” President Uhuru said in an indirect attack at his deputy William Ruto.
