Background
Mr. Hakainde Hichilema had just emerged from the Party General Assembly where he not only went unopposed for the position of the UPND Presidency but also amended the Party Constitution to ensure no candidate contest for a specific office of the National Management Committee but everyone would be appointed by him.
From the UPND General Assembly, Mr. Hichilema had just become a god to UPND members who had been elected to nameless positions in the NMC, as KK was to UNIP when all party powers had been vested in him in 1971.
HH Project to rename Alliance
Quickly, Mr Hichilema’s next task was: how to deal with the Alliance now that he had successfully managed to deal with his internal party politics. The danger in that Alliance was the National Democratic Party (NDC) and Chishimba Kambwili. The other so-called Opposition Alliance members are just nothing but shell of themselves having no influence and no following at all.
THE STANDARD
Soy MP Caleb Kositany at Kabatini area in Bahati Constituency on June 17, 2019. [File]
President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday completed the purge against allies of Deputy President William Ruto by kicking his only remaining lieutenant from the Jubilee Party.
The ruling coalition last evening fired Soy MP Caleb Kositany as its Deputy Secretary-General and replaced him with Cherangany’s Joshua Kutuny.
“The Jubilee Party National Management Committee met today – March 1, 2021, at the party headquarters, and in the exercise of its mandate as provided for under Article 7 (2) of the Jubilee Party Constitution, removed Caleb Kositany from the position of Deputy Secretary-General with immediate effect,” Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju said in a statement.
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Mireri Junior |
March 1st 2021 at 19:18:44 GMT +0300
Soi MP Caleb Kositany has been removed as Jubilee Party deputy secretary-general. [File, Standard]
The ruling Jubilee Party has removed Soi MP Caleb Kositany as the ruling party’s deputy secretary-general.
Kositany who has declared that he will not defend his Soi seat on the Jubilee ticket was removed after the party’s National Management Committee (NMC) meeting on Monday.
Kositany has been replaced by Cherangany MP Joshua Kuttuny as the new deputy SG.
“In exercise of its mandate as provided for under Article7 (2) of the Jubilee Party Constitution removed Caleb Kositany from the position Deputy Secretary-General with immediate effect. Joshua Kuttuny, MP for Cherengany, is the new Deputy Secretary-General of the Jubilee Party,” read a statement by the party signed by Secretary-General Raphael Tuju.