Divisions as leaders jostle for Jubilee Alliance Party positions

JAP Reloaded officials hold hands after they launched the Murang'a declaration to jump start recruitment of more than seven million youth in 10 counties recently. There are wrangles in the region over leadership positions in the new party. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

The emergence of the Jubilee Alliance Party (JAP) as President Uhuru Kenyatta's vehicle for the 2017 polls has opened fresh wrangles in the Mt Kenya region.

Elected leaders and their political rivals are scrambling for a piece of JAP after its resounding victory in the Kabete by-election.