Ngunjiri Wambugu to Uhuru: Take a back seat on Jubilee Party matters
National
By
Esther Nyambura
| May 10, 2023
Former Nyeri town Member of Parliament Ngunjiri Wambugu has asked ex-president Uhuru Kenyatta to take a back seat on matters involving the Jubilee Party leadership.
Speaking in an interview on Spice FM on Wednesday, May 10, Ngunjiri opined that Uhuru's efforts to maintain his position as the party leader would eventually cripple the Jubilee party.
"Uhuru needs to accept that he does not have a vision for the party beyond where we are. He did his part and did a good job. He is just scared that the next leadership might go and work with Kenya Kwanza and that is a personal problem."
"He has to accept that he cannot run the party anymore," the former lawmaker said.
Ngunjiri says the Party needs to be steered by a leader who is currently active in politics.
"Politics is like a war and people will follow someone who will lead them to war, not someone sitting outside telling them what he used to do when he was at war that is what Jubilee needs."
"What the former president can do is act as an advisor of the party without playing partisan politics," he said.
Ngunjiri further noted that the former president had the power to end the party wrangles if he took a neutral bi-partisan position.
Currently, the once-ruling party is having a supremacy fight between two factions, one led by East African Legislative Assembly lawmaker Kanini Kega and another led by former Ndaragwa legislator Jeremiah Kioni.
Kioni accuses the Kega-led faction of working with their rivals in Kenya Kwanza Alliance despite Jubilee being an affiliate party of Azimio la Umoja One Kenya.
At the same time, Kanini Kega's faction says they feel disrespected and undervalued by the Azimio la Umoja Coalition.