Former President Mwai Kibaki acknowledges greetings during the 50th Jamhuri Day celebrations at Safaricom Stadium Kasarani in Nairobi on December 12, 2013. He has been reinstated as PNU party leader. [Photo: nation.co.ke]The Registrar of Political Parties has gazetted former President Mwai Kibaki as the Party of National Unity (PNU) leader.This ends former Meru Governor Peter Munya’s controversial stint at the helm of the party. Munya used the party ticket to seek reelection on August 8 polls but lost to his fierce Jubilee rival Kiraitu Murungi.In a gazette notice dated August 16 and published on Friday, the Registrar, Lucy Ndung’u also replaced seven other officials elected alongside Munya last year.Ndung’u states that the change of PNU leadership follows a judgment by the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal delivered on June 20, 2017, which indicated that 'the officials of the interested party in office as at 27th October, 2016 remain the bona fide office bearers of PNU until a proper general meeting is held to elect national officials'.According to the gazette notice seen by Saturday Nation, the bona fide PNU officials include John Kamama (Chairman), Irene Muronji (1st Vice chairperson), Paul Amayo (2nd Vice chairperson), John Anunda (Secretary General) and Alphonse Musyoki (Organising Secretary).Others are Mwajuma Rajab (Secretary, Finance), Genery Wando (Deputy Treasurer), Anna Chebet (Director of Elections), Prisca Mwita (National Women Chairperson), Beatrice Cherono (National Youth Chairperson) and Agnes Toya (NEC member)."Any person with written submissions concerning the intended changes by the political party shall within seven days deposit them with the Registrar of Political Parties," the notice reads as quoted by the paper.Munya was elected PNU leader in October 2016 in a National Delegates Conference that was disputed by a section of officials. This is after the Political Parties Dispute Resolution Tribunal nullified the dissolution of PNU.The gazettement of Munya and his team came after they moved to court and obtained orders compelling the Registrar of Political Parties to gazette them.

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