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Moses Wetangula Rubbishes His Ford Kenya Ouster

Ford Kenya Leader Moses Wetangula in a past function | Photo Courtesy

By Whispers Correspondent

Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula on Sunday dismissed his removal as Ford Kenyaโ€™s party leader as an illegality meted out by a cabal of impostors.

During a press conference, Wetangula accused the partyโ€™s NEC of airlifting impostors to bundle him out of the party leadership.

โ€œThey were airlifting impostors yesterday from Kisumu and Mombasa, those people are not even members of Ford Kenyaโ€™s NEC,โ€ he said.

The embattled senator alleges that several people were booked at the high-end Radisson Blu hotel before meeting to vote on his ouster.

Further, he claims that those who voted in favour of his ouster were coerced into making the unlawful changes.

โ€œA grouping calling themselves NEC members of this party airlifted people who are not officials of this party; booked and detained them forcefully overnight and made decisions affecting this party. We shall discipline these truant & errant members,โ€ he said.

In a retaliatory move, Wetangula suspended the partyโ€™s Secretary General David Simiyu and replaced him with Chris Wamalwa.

At the same time, he rubbished the changes by the partyโ€™s NEC and asked anyone interested in being a party leader to file their papers and wait for the yet-to-be-announced party elections at the Bomas of Kenya.

โ€œCoups are archaic to good order and activities of cowards. Anybody who wants to run for a seat in Ford Kenya file your papers and letโ€™s meet at Bomas. I have no doubt delegates will still give me a chance to run this party,โ€ he added.

Earlier on Sunday, the Ford Kenya NEC had announced that Wetangula had been kicked out as the party leader on accusations of moral impropriety and gross misconduct.

The partyโ€™s NEC moved to have him replaced by Kanduyi member of parliament Wafula Wamuninyi on an interim basis.

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