Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has been suffering from indecisiveness for some time, hence the troubles the Jubilee Party is dealing with, Nominated Member of Parliament Sabina Chege has claimed.
The leader claims that it is for this reason that Jubilee is no longer the political mammoth it once was, claiming that Uhuru, who has been it’s leader, has presided over its reduction to the small party it now is.
Chege, who was recently named the new Jubilee Party Leader by a faction allied to President William Ruto, claims that it is because of the indecisiveness that Uhuru can not even stand up for himself and the party he helped found.
She says that rather, he seems to be surrendering the outfit to ODM leader Raila Odinga, further branding him an absentee leader who has been nowhere to be seen when the party and it’s people need him.
“He abandoned us at the negotiating table on parliamentary power-sharing. Jubilee was not consulted in parliamentary committees, parliamentary commissions… we tried to reach him through phone calls and text messages. He never responded,” she said on Thursday.
She also defended the move by herself and her fellow Jubilee MPs who decamp to the Kenya Kwanza side, stating that they had no business remaining in Raila’s Azimio La Umoja coalition.
“As for the Jubilee Party, if we stayed in Azimio, we would have died. If we hunted alone, we would have died. We thought it prudent to create an independent tact, supported by our friends, so that we could go out to hunt in good health, with full stomachs,” she is quoted by the Daily Nation.
On her purported takeover from Uhuru as Party Leader, she said that even the law is not on Uhuru’s side with regards to him remaining the leader. She added that Uhuru has also not been active on Jubilee affairs and has no business remaining at the helm.
“The law is not on his side. Six months outside State House disqualifies him from being our party leader. He is yet to write a letter to explain that he is still an active politician,” added the former Murang’a Woman Representative who was once a close Uhuru ally.
by: Curtis-Otieno