A day after Machakos governor Alfred Mutua launched his Mandeleo Chap Chap Party, Cotu wants the party to stop using the colour purple saying that is the union's official logo.
In a demand letter addressed to Mutua and the registrar of political parties on Friday, the workers' union said the whole event was a sea of purple a colour, which is synonymous with Cotu.
"Cotu has given him seven days to stop using the colour," the union's lawyer Samuel Aduda
said.
Mutua on Thursday launched his Maendeleo Chap Chap Party at the Bomas of Kenya.
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The Governor intends to use the new party to seek re-election in 2017 after falling out with Wiper, the party that he used in 2013 elections.
He added that time had come for a paradigm shift in politics where leaders should be accountable to the people and not the other way round as has been the case since independence.
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