Moses Wetangula Ousted as Ford-Kenya Party Leader and Replaced by Wafula Wamunyinyi

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Bungoma senator Moses Masika Wetangula has been formerly ousted as Ford-Kenya party leader and replaced by Kanduyi member of parliament Athanas Wafula Wamunyinyi. This is according to a gazette notice dated June 8, that was issued by the registrar of political parties Ms. Ann Nderitu. The notice also pointed out that the party's national organizing secretary Chris Mandu Mandu had been replaced by Josephine Maungu.

"In the exercise of the powers conferred by section 20(1) (c) of the party's act, 2011, the registrar of political parties hereby gives notice of the Ford-Kenya party intends to change its officials, and any person with written submissions concerning the intended change by the political party, shall within seven days from the date here in, deposit them to the registrar of political parties," Nderitu said.

This entire fracas started as a result of a meeting summoned by the party's special National Executive Committee (NEC) led by the party's Secretary General Dr. Eseli Simiyu and Bungoma County Governor Wycliffe Wangamati among other leaders last week in a Nairobi hotel. They all accused Wetangula of failure to steer the party and bring back harmony among the belligerent members, thus reducing the heat within the party.

The Bungoma senator was also faulted with failure to show leadership qualities and inspire unity in the party, contrary to clause 49 of the party's constitution. The party's secretary general Dr. Eseli Simiyu said that the party had lost its credibility due to bad leadership and the evidence they had, implicated involvement of gross misconduct and mismanagement of the party by the former minority leader in the senate.

However, Wetangula discharged the claims and the meeting held by the party's NEC to remove him from top leadership claiming that he can only be removed by an electioneering process and that a coup in the party can not be accepted. "We condemn any idlers who are staging parochial coups in the party when the country is facing Covid-19 challenges, floods and locust invasion," He said.


This comes after another meeting previously convened by COTU secretary general Francis Atwoli (above) in Kajiado that brought together 40 members of parliament from the western region and that he (Wetangula) and ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi had skipped, with ODM party leader Raila Odinga and the COTU boss being faulted for Wetangula's woes.

 

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