New Ford Kenya officials, led by newly appointed national treasurer Benjamin Wanyonyi, have said they will not join Jubilee Party.
Speaking to the press on Tuesday in Bungoma town, the interim officials said party leader and Bungoma Governor Kenneth Lusaka was not a bona fide official, according to documents filed at the registrar of political parties. They said he should seek a fresh mandate from the electorate.
“We have taken over the party in an interim position as we have filed returns at the Registrar of Political Parties office to replace the officials who joined the government and strategised to kill our party,” Wanyonyi said.
Fighting back
But speaking to the Star on the phone, Lusaka dismissed Wanyonyi, terming him a political broker. “We know Wanyonyi and his team are political brokers who want to be used by our rivals to destabilize NFK, but they will not succeed,” he said. Lusaka said he is the party leader after taking over from Water CS Eugene Wamalwa.
He said as party leader, he is still at a negotiating table to finalise the party’s move to join JP and will soon make his stand public. “We know people like Wanyonyi are feeling left out in the negotiations and that’s why they are coming up with rumours that we have sold the party,” the governor said.
Wanyonyi said Jubilee planned to destroy the party by poaching the national officials and giving them government positions to eventually “kill the party” ahead of the general election.
