Isn’t that really stupid?” Asked a confident Dr Ruto in mid-2016, just as the merger debate raged on. Mr Ruto left Jubilee to form Chama Cha Mashinani after what became irreconcilable differences with the DP, chief among them being the merger. Now Dr Ruto is fighting what he calls a fraudulent move to change the Jubilee Party officials of the National Management Committee. At the time he opposed the merger, Mr Ruto said his conviction was that Kenya was sliding back to the Kanu single-party era. MPs allied to Dr Ruto joined him in writing protest letters to Ms Anne Nderitu, the registrar, following his complaint over the proposed change of officials.

Source: Daily Nation April 14, 2020 06:56 UTC