{"id":1083,"date":"2020-01-21T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T14:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2020-01-21T14:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T14:20:21","slug":"atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya","title":{"rendered":"Atwoli faulted for push to dissolve ANC and Ford Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from two political parties have criticised Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) Secretary General Francis Atwoli for suggesting that the two groups should be dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>The members of Amani National Congress (ANC) and Ford Kenya said Mr Atwoli lacked the authority to censure party leaders Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetang\u2019ula.ANC Kakamega chairman Julius Arunga said that Mr Mudavadi and Mr Wetang\u2019ula had demonstrated they could work together after they attended the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) meeting at Bukhungu Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of working together does not necessary mean that we fold our parties. We can have the two parties and as long as we agree to work together in a coalition, there is no problem with that. What is necessary is to propel our leaders to form the next government,\u201d said Mr Arunga.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe don\u2019t need the help of outsiders to come and set the stage for us.\u201dKhamisi Butichi, who vied for the Kibra parliamentary seat on a Ford Kenya ticket, said they would not allow their leaders to be undermined.\u201cWe don\u2019t need anyone\u2019s advice on dissolving our parties. Anyone seeking our support must go through Mudavadi and Wetang\u2019ula. We must be in government by right and not by privilege or connections,\u201d said Mr Butichi.<\/p>\n<p>During the Saturday meeting, Atwoli had advised Mudavadi and Wetang\u2019ula to form an alliance in preparation for the next General Election.\u201cThe two leaders are cheating themselves. Next year, we shall have Bukhungu Two and we can\u2019t get it wrong. We are going into government. We shall do research in every constituency and I shall tell you who to elect. I will not leave you alone,\u201d said Atwoli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from two political parties have criticised Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) Secretary General Francis Atwoli for suggesting that the two groups should be dissolved. The members of Amani National Congress (ANC) and Ford Kenya said Mr Atwoli lacked the authority to censure party leaders Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetang\u2019ula.ANC Kakamega chairman Julius Arunga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,10],"tags":[648,649],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","tag-francis-atwoli","tag-nominated-mp-maina-kamanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Atwoli faulted for push to dissolve ANC and Ford Kenya - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Officials from two political parties have criticised Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) Secretary General Francis Atwoli for\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atwoli faulted for push to dissolve ANC and Ford Kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Officials from two political parties have criticised Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) Secretary General Francis Atwoli for\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-21T14:20:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/01\/ipujcpszyhgd5e25eb7384ddc.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atwoli faulted for push to dissolve ANC and Ford Kenya\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-21T14:20:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya\"},\"wordCount\":299,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/01\/ipujcpszyhgd5e25eb7384ddc.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Francis Atwoli\",\"Nominated MP Maina Kamanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/atwoli-faulted-for-push-to-dissolve-anc-and-ford-kenya\",\"name\":\"Atwoli faulted for push to dissolve ANC and Ford Kenya - 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