PRESIDENT Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election party will be ready by the time of its planned launch in March, the steering committee chairman Kiraitu Murungi said yesterday.
Speaking to the Star on the phone, he said there are no hitches or delays in putting together the Jubilee Party, which seeks to merge all the Jubilee coalition parties.
“We are currently finalising the party constitution. All the National Executive Committees of the major parties have filed resolutions adopting the merger and will be calling their NDCs soon,” Murungi said.
All political parties must follow their own constitutions when dissolving.
The directive was given by the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal as it ruled on dissolving Uhuru’s TNA.
In petition by Narok North MP Moitalel ole Kenta in December, the Tribunal said TNA can only dissolve after following all procedures in its constitution.
Murungi said from next month, the party will hold meetings across the 47 counties to educate the members of dissolving parties.
He said officials of all the parties that will form the Jubilee Party will be involved.
“After that we will be ready to meet at Kasarani on March 31 and launch the party, which will be the biggest in the country,” Murungi said.
The Star has established there has been disquiet among some parties and the meetings aim to forestall any rebellion.
There is a suggestion that the new party takes up the Jubilee Alliance Party and change its name to the Jubilee Party.
Some JAP officials are said to be resisting this despite the party having been sanctioned by Uhuru and Deputy President William Ruto as the initial merger party.
“With the tight timeline given by the principals, it is virtually impossible to go through the whole process of registering a new party. The best option has been just to take an existing one and rebrand it,” a source familiar with the ongoings, but who does not want to be drawn into the controversy, told the Star.
