Jubilee delegates conference to give members direction — MPs

Two Jubilee MPs have said the party’s National Delegates Conference planned for November 30 will enable members to get a roadmap of where the party is going.

Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu and his Murang’a counterpart Sabina Chege said there have been a lot of ground activation meetings in Mt Kenya region and in the country.

They said they also expect there will be a few house cleaning to do in disciplining members who left the party and started associating with another party and even getting into a conflict with Jubilee.

Wambugu said the press notice on Monday newspapers for Jubilee NDC was a request from members in and outside Parliament.

The NDC, he said, came at a time when there have been false assumptions that Jubilee is dead by people who are still in the party but have refused to leave. 

The lawmaker said this will prove to people that Jubilee does things at the right time.

He said party members were just heeding President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive to avoid politics and focus on service delivery.

President Uhuru is the Jubilee Party leader.

 “We are now getting onto the political cycle, meaning that now we need to start wearing our party colours and hats, and that is why you are starting to see Jubilee revamping itself,” he said.

Chege said Jubilee is alive and strong and that is why those in United Democratic Alliance have kept talking about it.

“You know when somebody dies, you don’t keep talking about the dead person. By the fact that, in their meetings, they have to talk about Jubilee tells you it is alive and they are scared about it,” she said.

She said they complain after realising that they made a mistake by engaging in a premature exit from the party.

Chege said they are expecting the President to give them a way forward during the NDC on how the party is going to run its affairs.

She said UDA has been associating itself with achievements of Jubilee for the last nine years but again chose to support another party which she termed as hypocrisy of the highest order.

The legislator dismissed those who claim the party has been swallowed by ODM, saying Jubilee is strong and was just looking for partners.

“Jubilee has its members and will make a decision on who is favourable (during the 2022 general election),” she said.

The two leaders said between now and November 30, they will have grassroots engagement with delegates in meetings as they prepare to go to Kasarani in Nairobi.

They told their opponents to prepare for a bruising political battle.

Wambugu said people in UDA have panicked as they never expected that Jubilee would reignite its grassroots networks.

The two were addressing the media outside Wambugu’s offices in Nyeri town on Monday.

(edited by Amol Awuor)