Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula is the Ford Kenya Presidential candidate, the party's National Executive Council has declared.
Speaking at Maanzoni Lodge in Machakos County after a two day NEC and Parliamentary Group meeting, the party resolved to continue engaging other Cord Principals to strike a compromise in relation to picking the opposition's presidential candidate.
Secretary General Eseli Simiyu said the party had also mandated Senator Moses Wetangula to engage Amani National Congress party leader Musalia Mudavadi with a view to forming a formidable alliance to counter JP in the next general election.
About party discipline, Simiyu warned JP defectors of firm disciplinary action including expulsion and subjection to a by election.
"We have decided as a party that these people are no longer members of the party and have no authority to speak or hold meetings on behalf of the party," he said.
The party resolutions were echoed by Wetangula who downplayed the alleged delay by the Cord coalition to name their presidential candidate, saying it was an internal mechanism of the opposition coalition.
Invoking the 2002 general elections where opposition party unveiled Mzee Kibaki as the NARC Kenya flag bearer barely two months before the elections, Wetangula assured Kenyans that the opposition's candidate will 'sweep' the elections like it happened in 2002.
"This is the agenda of Jubilee to paint Cord as disunited since they already have a flag bearer but they should know it's not just about having a flag bearer but what agenda you have for Kenya," Wetangula said.
Wetangula also condemned the recent attack on Mumias police station and asked the police Inspector General to stop the brutality meted out on the residents by the force.
"The police should be conducting investigations instead of attacking innocent residents. It is the right of every Kenyan to be protected," he added.