Kenya: Kega-Led Jubilee Faction Gives Notice of Withdrawal From Azimio

The Kanini Kega-led Jubilee party has now officially withdrawn from the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition.

Through a notice, Kega indicated that the Jubilee Party no longer wants to be part of the Azimio outfit.

"Further take note that pursuant to Article 33.1.1 and 2 of the party constitution as read together with article 22.1 of the deed of agreement for Azimio la Umoja one Kenya coalition, Jubilee party hereby gives notice to withdraw from the deed of agreement for Azimio la Umoja coalition," the notice stated.

The move comes barely a month after the Jeremiah Kioni-led faction held a National Delegates Conference (NDC) that kicked out the Kenya Kwanza-allied jubilee Members of Parliament from the party, a meeting that the Kega led faction rubbished as inconsequential and illegal.

Jubilee has recently been at the center of discursions with Azimio reading a hidden government hand in interfering with the internal issues that continue to bedevil the former ruling party.

So intense have the wrangles been so that retired head of state Uhuru Kenyatta had been compelled to come from his retirement in an open defiance to the law requiring him to exit active politics.

"I wanted to exit the political scene and I was thinking in the NDC is where I would come out to announce my retirement," he told delegates at Ngong racecourse in Nairobi.

The former head of state is yet again confronted with the escalating jubilee wrangles pitting him against his rebel MPs with a beleaguered axis of members of the former ruling party by his side.

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