President Uhuru Kenyatta’s The National Alliance ( TNA) party is currently rocked by an internal power struggle.
TNA chairman Johnson Sakaja
The conflict stems from the nomination to the National Assembly of party Chairman Johnson Sakaja, prompting demands from a section of the party leaders that being a State officer the law requires him to relinquish the post.
Yesterday, Mr Sakaja insisted he was still the TNAchairman, dismissing the resolution of a Tuesday night meeting that stripped him of the seat. “I remain chair of TNA. That illegal night gathering (without quorum) has no implication. Interested applicants should wait for NDC and face me,” Sakaja said in a statement on his Twitter account yesterday.
He was alluding to a meeting of the National Oversight Board (NOB) in which those in attendance insisted Sakaja must relinquish party leadership, arguing he was a State officer and the law and TNA’s constitution bar him from holding a party post. “On the legality of the meeting held on June 11, 2013, it is to be noted the meeting had been set to happen at the expiry of the 21-day period that had been set by the party’s NOB,” said Lydia Mokaya who signed off as TNA interim chairperson.
