Jubilee merger directive kicks off President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election bid

Deputy President William Ruto greets some of the URP supporters at his official residence in Karen, Nairobi. The Deputy President explained to them the need to form one political party, the Jubilee Alliance.

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election bid has kicked off in earnest after he assembled a team to merge affiliate parties under the Jubilee coalition into the Jubilee Alliance Party (JAP), the political vehicle on which he and Deputy William Ruto will contest the 2017 election.

He has given the team until the end of December to dissolve the affiliate parties, opening up two months of heightened political activity in the ruling coalition.