Nairobi governor Mike Sonko and Polycarp Igathe at a past event. (Photo/Tuko)
After Jubilee won the Nairobi gubernatorial seat, the party's next step was to take a key role in the management of the city from State House.
Following the unclear circumstances in which deputy governor Polycarp Igathe resigned, details have emerged showing how Igathe and his senior disagreed after the former tried to push Jubilee's agenda to merge City Hall dockets into the national government.
Funds were even set aside for the programme.
“The meeting agreed that in the next four weeks, all relevant state departments and city county departments re-align their procurement plans to ensure relevant allocations are available for the implementation of the programme,” President Uhuru Kenyatta was quoted on November 8.
The dockets to be affected included Housing and Settlement as well as Infrastructure and Transport.
Also, the dockets of Energy, Water Resources, Environment and Solid Waste, Youth, Women and Persons with Disability were to be ceded by Sonko's government.
However, Sonko's faction opposed this, something that ended up soaring relations between governor and deputy governor.
“The governor felt he was being undermined and the deputy felt he had been handed powers over the affairs of the county,” said a Jubilee MP.