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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> The latest leadership changes in the Jubilee Party have exposed Deputy President William Ruto as one living in denial of his frosty relations with President Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n

Jubilee has proposed to replace Fatuma Shukri, Pamela Mutua and Veronica Maina, who have since taken up government jobs, in the National Management Committee (NMC).<\/p>\n

It has nominated Lucy Nyawira Macharia, Marete Marangu, Walter Nyambati, Jane Nampaso and James Waweru to take their place.The details were contained in a gazette notice from the Registrar of Political Parties, Anne Nderitu, dated April 6.<\/p>\n

Dr Ruto, alongside dozens of his parliamentary allies, has written to Ms Nderitu opposing the changes and arguing that they had not been sanctioned by party organs.<\/p>\n

The DP, who is the deputy party leader, has insisted that his boss is not privy to the new appointments.But the president\u2019s allies have openly declared that Mr Kenyatta sanctioned the changes, and so far, the party leader has not contradicted this position.<\/p>\n

The latest indication that the Jubilee house is crumbling adds to mounting incidents that demonstrate the strained relationship between the president and his deputy.<\/p>\n

Uhuru\u2019s deal with ODM party leader Raila Odinga, the Building Bridges Initiative, the war on corruption that Ruto has protested is a witch hunt, and the president\u2019s discomfort with his deputy\u2019s premature presidential campaign are among the issues that have driven a wedge between the two Jubilee leaders.<\/p>\n

While Ruto has denied that the president was involved in the new Jubilee leadership lineup, Vice Chair David Murathe and Secretary General Raphael Tuju have insisted that the party leader endorsed the changes in line with the party\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n

It was the closest confirmation that the drama in Jubilee is not the handiwork of a few individuals and that the cast is being directed from elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Burning house<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his defence of Uhuru, the DP portrayed the picture of a man burying his head in the sand as his house burns.\u201cThe President and party leader of JP did not and cannot be party to any fraudulent and illegal changes to officials of our party. This is the work of political rejects, conmen and fraudsters (whose) party allegiance is already elsewhere,\u201d the DP wrote in a tweet in the wake of the changes.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, in separate interviews with The Standard, Mr Murathe and Mr Tuju insisted that they were right and the DP was wrong.Murathe said the president was aware of the changes, while Tuju said he is in regular communication with Uhuru and that the changes were done in line with the party constitution.\u201cThe president, who is the party leader, is aware.<\/p>\n

The secretary general is not a mad man to write a letter to the Registrar of Political Parties without reference to the boss,\u201d said Murathe.He added: \u201cUhuru has a voice in all that is happening. What the DP is panicking about is not the leadership of the party, but his 2022 (presidential) ambition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president does not need the National Executive Committee to make changes to the party leadership anywhere, including in Parliament where he is targeting next. So what the DP is trying to do is to stop the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuju, on the other hand, said as Jubilee\u2019s secretary general, he keeps the president updated and that the changes were made based on the party\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have access to the instruments of communication of the party. We do communicate with the party leader but I cannot discuss the mode of our communication,\u201d said Tuju.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe changes that were made were done in line with the party constitution\u2019s transitional clause. None of the party officials can operate outside the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president is yet to come out openly to comment on the matter or reprimand the Jubilee Party officials despite the DP\u2019s reservations.Cases of the DP denying a souring relationship with his boss abound.<\/p>\n

He has been conspicuously missing from the president\u2019s press briefings on the coronavirus pandemic, arguably the greatest emergency in recent history.The DP was not at the National Security Council meeting that made critical decisions at the onset of the pandemic.He later appeared at a press conference in his Karen official residence days later, saying he was part of the decisions made by the government on the health crisis.<\/p>\n

Another denial<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid last year, there were reports that the president had avoided the DP at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on his return from a trip to Zambia.<\/p>\n

The DP denied the reports in a tweet, terming them propaganda against the ruling party.\u201cJubilee is built on rock-solid philosophy and beliefs that no amount of scheming and propaganda can undermine,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Soy MP Caleb Kositany rejected perceptions that Ruto is living in denial.\u201cIf there were any issues, the president would speak. He would be the last person to do crooked things in a ruling party,\u201d said Mr Kositany, an ally of the DP.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course there are issues, but the issue is not the president but the people who want to destroy the party.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure the president will come out to speak at the right time.\u201dNyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu said the DP was fighting a losing battle, also reiterating that the changes to the NMC were in accordance with the party\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Kenya: The latest leadership changes in the Jubilee Party have exposed Deputy President William Ruto as one living in denial of his frosty relations with President Uhuru Kenyatta. Jubilee has proposed to replace Fatuma Shukri, Pamela Mutua and Veronica Maina, who have since taken up government jobs, in the National Management Committee (NMC). 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