Tuju Edged Out As Murathe Survives Jubilee Onslaught With A Warning But Fail To Endorse Graft Riddled Ngatia For Nairobi Gubernatorial Seat

The colourful Jubilee party NDC that signalled its rebirth has dominated news headlines, but a lot remains unknown on the silent intrigues that ran concurrently with the event.

After the unveiling of the Jubilee Party’s new leadership at its NDC, reasons have emerged as to why immediate former Secretary-General Raphael Tuju was forced to resign from his position, and quickly replaced with MP Jeremiah Kioni and why Vice Chair David Murathe received a cold-acknowledgement from President Uhuru, even as he retained his position.

In damming revelations known to party insiders, the decision to replace Raphael Tuju was arrived at following numerous complaints of extortion and bribery among aspirants jostling for the party’s ticket in the coming election – prominently, Nairobi county.

Among Tuju’s prominent misdeeds are open personal bias and favoritism towards tainted KEMSA suspect and gubernatorial hopeful Richard Ngatia whose candidature for Nairobi has met opposition and ridicule from both residents, and party as well as national leaders.

In a dramatic move alien to Jubilee party rules, Mr Tuju, as it emerged, had already assured Ngatia that he would sell him the party ticket and had allegedly been promised millions of shillings. However, the party’s top leadership caught wind of Tuju’s nefarious plans and forced him to resign as a way to save face.

Tuju’s partner in crime, David Murathe, was severely warned against abuse of his position to enrich himself and impose tainted aspirants on a rebranded Jubilee Party.

In an apparent desperate move to honor the end of his corrupt deal after being stripped off his Secretary General’s position, Tuju still went ahead and in collision with crooked journalists, issued a statement that he, as former Secretary General, had settled on the scandalous Ngatia to be the Jubilee candidate for Nairobi, an announcement that has left the ruling party the subject of sneers and jeers. How dramatic?

Insiders have also revealed that so desperate was Tuju in his attempts to impose Ngatia has Jubilee’s candidate that he even booked a front-seat for him and attempted to have the MCs introduce him as Jubilee’s candidate – a plan that fell flat on its face.

Party supporters have been urged to ignore any statements from him and his associates. who are slowly being pushed out of the party in a clean–up exercise coinciding with the rebrand.