Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju and Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago Photo/uasingishuwikileaks.wordpress.com
Uasin Gishu Governor Mr. Mandago has questioned Tuju’s loyalty to Jubilee after the party Secretary General failed to organize smooth elections. Speaking while addressing his supporters in Eldoret, the governor said that the party secretariat lacked proper preparations.
“Will you force these people while you are in an office in Nairobi swivelling on a chair? I want to tell you, please do not behave in such a way that we begin to doubt whether you are in Jubilee or in NASA,” Mandago said.
He also complained about the ease with which Tuju was taking serious matters on the ground. According to him, their campaign expenditure should not be underrated.
“I want to plead with Raphael Tuju. You must not sit in the office and say ‘It is a must.’ There is nothing here which is fixed. If you say it is a must and then us on our part we say it is a must the nominations will not continue, what will you do? We have done our campaigns well in an organised manner. So I want to ask those in charge of the party to stop letting us down. Uasin Gishu is a Jubilee stronghold and it does not look good that this is the place where the exercise is this disorganised,” he said.
His plight was echoed by businessman Kiprotich Bundotich aka Buzeki who is planning to dethrone him on the same Jubilee ticket.
“I think for it to continue at this particular time, it may pose logistical constraints to voters which may make it difficult for them to exercise their democratic right in an environment which is conducive. As soon as they get enough ballot papers for us to continue, I think it would be responsible to say that the voting should go on from tomorrow morning or latest the day after,” Buzeki said.