UDF: Mudavadi severed ties with Jubilee over 'dishonour'

UDF Party on Friday said that Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi severed links with Jubilee coalition on serious grounds of dishonour and lack of integrity by Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto.

"It should be on record that Hon Mudavadi had already informed the couple of his decision to severe ties on serious grounds of dishonour, and lack integrity and commitment by the couple," said a statement from UDF.

Mr Mudavadi, who was on a tour in Nyeri County on Friday said he was not bitter with his Jubilee colleagues and that doors for reconciliation were still open.

Mr Mudavadi told Nyeri residents that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta approached and pledged to support him for the unity of the country but wondered why he could not keep his promise.

"“My friend came to me saying we must unite the country and remove stereotypes and suspicions among our people. I have always stood for
peace, unity and against ethnic divisions and so I agreed it was time Kenya forged ahead under a Jubilee generation’, he said narrating the
events of December 4 that lead to the formation of the Jubilee Coalition.

"I have no animosity between myself and Jubilee principals. The door is still open for reconciliation," he added.

UDF also dismissed the 'dropping' of Mr Mudavadi by Jubilee painted Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto as "dishonourable and cheeky to the extreme."

"Their claim is impolite and an abuse of the collective intelligence of Jubilee Coalition supporters and Kenyans who are aware of legal provisions governing political coalitions," said the statement.

It added, "It is the mark of their traditional dishonourable ways that these fellows find fun in lying to the public."

UDF claims that announcement was a feeble attempt to pre-empt Mudavadi's announcement on severing ties with Jubilee on Friday while on a tour in Nyeri.

UDF says Jubilee leaders cannot therefore claim to have 'dropped' Mr Musalia because had already walked out on "grounds of fraudulent misrepresentation."

"If the issue was 'democratic' for Mudavadi to be nominated through 'delegates', how democratic is it to 'endorse' Uhuru at a makeshift unknown delegates’ conference?"

"If they thought they had schemed to prevent Hon Mudavadi from ascending to the presidency, they bet on the wrong car because Hon Mudavadi continues his campaigns for the presidency on UDF ticket undeterred," added the statement.