{"id":8804,"date":"2020-05-31T20:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T20:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2020-05-31T20:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T20:30:31","slug":"party-coup-moses-wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/parties\/party-coup-moses-wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-leader","title":{"rendered":"Party Coup: Moses Wetangula removed as Ford Kenya leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"standard-content \">\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\"><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula has been kicked out as Ford Kenya party leader.The decision was arrived at on Sunday, May 31, after the party\u2019s special National Executivetive Council (NEC) meeting at Nairobi&#8217;s Radisson Blu Hotel.The party\u2019s NEC has accused Wetangula of gross misconduct and failing to champion unity in the party.<\/div>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\">\nOther charges levelled against Wetangula include\u00a0failing to reconcile warring members to eliminate friction in the partyThe former Minority Leader in the Senate is also accused of failing to provide inspiring leadership to the party contrary to Clause 49 of the party\u2019s constitution.<\/div>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\">Wetangula (<strong>pictured<\/strong>) has been replaced by Kanduyi MP Wafula Wamunyinyi as interim party leader.The meeting was led by Bungoma Governor Wycliffe Wangamati and the party&#8217;s Secretary General Dr Eseli Simiyu as pro-Wetangula party members protested.<\/div>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\"><\/div>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\">Also thrown out during the changes is party Organising Secretary Chris Mandu in a meeting which\u00a0Wetangula allies storm out of the venue.<\/div>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\">Earlier, Kwanza MP Ferdinand Wanyonyi, Wetangula\u2019s ally, was thrown out of the meeting after accusing Wangamati of plotting to remove Wetangula as the party leader.Wanyonyi accused Wangamati of trying to elbow Wetangula out of the party for selfish reasons.<\/div>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\"><\/div>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\">\u201cThese are political machination plotted by Wangamati and his sympathisers to take control of the party, but we will not allow him,\u201d he said.The legislator wondered why he was being ejected out of the meeting yet he is a bonafide member of the party.&#8221;Why are they chasing me away? 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Wangamati and his group are in there meeting,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373424\/wetangula-removed-as-ford-kenya-party-leader\">\nSome of the party members backing Wangamati have accused Wetangula of doing very little to grow the party hence the need to effect the changes.&#8221;Party members have lost trust in the party leader hence the need to replace him to develop the party.&#8221;The Ford Kenya meeting\u00a0comes after another meeting\u00a0led by Cotu boss Francis Atwoli that brought together 40 MPs from Western held in Kajiado\u00a0which was skipped by Wetangula and ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula has been kicked out as Ford Kenya party leader.The decision was arrived at on Sunday, May 31, after the party\u2019s special National Executivetive Council (NEC) meeting at Nairobi&#8217;s Radisson Blu Hotel.The party\u2019s NEC has accused Wetangula of gross misconduct and failing to champion unity in the party. 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