By: N. George
Worth Noting:
- “Uhuru Kenyatta will continue as the Jubilee Party Leader, well in the future as a guarantor in our engagement with our political partners.” the PG resolved.
- The PG meeting also agreed to form special teams in future which will be meeting with the party leadership to craft strategic steps to boost chances of the party winning a majority of the seats in the coming general elections.
- “In the coming days, regional and Special Interest Caucuses and teams will be established. They will meet with party leader/ leadership separately as the party takes definitive and strategic steps to ensure victory in the next general elections.”
On Friday, February 4, 2022 President Uhuru Kenyatta hosted Jubilee’s party parliamentary group meeting at state house, Nairobi.
In the Jubilee party press release yesterday it categorically stated that the party leader Uhuru Kenyatta have spoken and said they have been working, but now the time for politics has come.
“We have been working, sasa wakati wa siasa umefika,” the report read.
The president in his address to the meeting that was attended by governors, senators, members of parliament (MPs), members of county assembly (MCAs) and party officials said that Jubilee was elected in the year 2017 to work for Kenyans and not to engage in premature 2022 elections.
He added that if anyone asks them where Jubilee party has been in the near past they should reply to him that they had gone to work to serve the Kenyans.
He further stated that now the Jubilee party is back in the political arena as it prepares for the forthcoming general elections.
One of the resolutions of the meeting was that the Jubilee party will implement a program to revitalize itself and actively engage with its followers.
Despite not intending to field a presidential candidate in the coming August general elections according to the agreement during this meeting instead the Jubilee party will embark on a strategic and aggressive campaign that will ensure that the party garners majority of seats in gubernatorial, senate, parliamentary and the majority of counties assembly at least thirty of them.
The Jubilee party’s parliamentary group (PG) resolved that Kenyatta will continue to the party leader despite not being a presidential candidate having completed the constitutional maximum two terms limit of five years each.
“Uhuru Kenyatta will continue as the Jubilee Party Leader, well in to the future as a guarantor in our engagement with our political partners.” the PG resolved.
The PG meeting also agreed to form special teams in future which will be meeting with the party leadership to craft strategic steps to boost chances of the party winning a majority of the seats in the coming general elections.
“In the coming days, regional and Special Interest Caucuses and teams will be established. They will meet with party leader/ leadership separately as the party takes definitive and strategic steps to ensure victory in the next general elections.”
The Jubilee party also intends to form alliances with like-minded parties but this need to be ratified by the National Delegates Convention (NDC).
The issue of the Jubilee party leader currently held by DP Ruto is likely to be discussed during the NDC.
The party leader Uhuru Kenyatta has also been given the role of negotiating on behalf of the party with leaders of like-minded parties including signing of coalition agreements before the next general elections.
“The Jubilee party will seek to get into coalition with like-minded parties and support a presidential candidate with whom we share common ideals, who will treat us with respect and with whom we can form the next government as an anchor partner to continue with the work done during the last ten years,” a statement read after the meeting said.
According to a notice released by the party’s secretary general Hon. Raphael Tuju on Thursday 3rd February 2022, the Jubilee party NDC has slated to be held on 25th and 26th February 2022 at Kenyatta International conference centre (KICC) from 10.00 am.
The agenda of the meeting shall be to review, formulate and / or approve Jubilee party policies. Amend, review and/ or ratify proposed changes to Jubilee Party Constitution to comply with current electoral laws. Approve the proposed new Seal, Symbol and Flag of the party. Lastly they would consider and approve any other matters.
The Jubilee Party of Kenya is the ruling political party of the Republic of Kenya. The party was founded on 8 September 2016, following the merger of several smaller parties. The major parties in the merger included the National Alliance party (TNA) led by Kenyatta and the United Republican Party (URP) led by Deputy President William Ruto.
The party leader of Jubilee has been President Uhuru Kenyatta with Deputy President Ruto deputizing him until December last year when the DP through one of the Jubilee constituent parties known as Party of Development and Reforms (PDR) unofficially split from the rest and rebranded in the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Party which he has declared to be using in vying for the presidential seat in the forthcoming August general elections. All members of the elective seats allied to him joined him in the UDA party.
UDA party independently participated in several by-elections last year and won some of them. The notable ones include Kiambaa constituency parliamentary seat and the Kiagu ward county assembly seat.
Dennis Dibondo