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Merger of parties only serves vested interests

Jubilee Party, which TNA’s Uhuru Kenyatta and URP’s William Ruto are desperate to sell to their respective backyards, is misbegotten. The two Jubilee honchos have offered no compelling rationale – beyond their own personal ambitions – why anyone else with a functioning noggin would join JP.

JP is horribly misbegotten – pure and simple. Even Jubilee before it was defensible on the theory of the tyranny of numbers. Not JP – I can’t see beyond the bridge of my nose make sense of it. But this is what’s so shocking – both Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto are convinced they are totally right, and their underlings utterly wrong. That’s why they are determined to ram JP down the throats of their lieutenants.

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