Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju has made it official that the Deputy President William Ruto is an unwelcomed guest at Jubilee Pangani Headquarters.
Tuju also noted that Ruto ceased to be Deputy Party Leader the moment he sanctioned the opening of the Jubilee Asili Centre.
The decision was reached after a National Management Committee meeting on Friday.
The party’s NEC will soon meet to adopt the same.
Tuju described Thursday events at party headquarters as an attempted power grab in the absence of President Uhuru Kenyatta who is in France on official duties.
“We would like to be absolutely clear, that we serve one President at a time. The DP, a self-declared 2022 presidential candidate, will not be allowed to use the party Headquarters as a centre of operationalization of his campaigns and for intimidation,” Tuju said.
Raphael Tuju, Sec. Gen., Jubilee: We would like to be absolutely clear, that we serve one President at a time. The DP, a self-declared 2022 presidential candidate, will not be allowed to use the party HQ as a centre of operationalization of his campaigns and for intimidation. pic.twitter.com/Cc5CzKPQ0n
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) October 2, 2020
The SG said it is no longer tenable for the DP to use the party platform to advance his divisive so-called ‘hustler’ politics that are counter to the party and the President’s platform of uniting the country and fighting corruption.
“We have witnessed with sadness, the very rude and unmitigated defiance in the face of the President’s vision by his Constitutional principal assistant, the Deputy President William Ruto,” Tuju said.
“Yesterday, the DP turned up at the party headquarters with more than 30 MPs, many of them known abusers of the President. These are some of the foul-mouthed MPs that are on record attacking government programmes like the Huduma Namba.”
Tuju said it was disturbing that the DP invited the same leaders to the party’s headquarters to give them a platform and increase polarisation in the party.
The SG said he averted an ugly confrontation with 40 MPs not allied to Ruto who had congregated at the Serena Hotel and had planned to also go to the party’s headquarters.
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However, Ruto’s ally and Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen has hastily responded to Tuju accusing him of dividing the country yet Uhuru stated that he wants to unite all kenyans.
He has also accused Tuju of speaking for someone else hence serving as someone’s else attack dog.
“So Tuju recommends to Uhuru Kenyatta to part ways with William Ruto a day after the President said he wants to unite the country together with his deputy?Who is fooling who? Is Tuju speaking for himself or he is someone’s attack dog?” Murkomen wrote on twitter.
