The Azimio coalition has sued National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula for favoring nominated Member of Parliament Sabina Chege and recognizing her as the Jubilee Party Whip.
Azimio wants the Jubilee Party to be recognized as a member of the opposition coalition in the case filed by former Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya.
Azimio demands that the National Assembly Speaker refrain from recognizing Jubilee as a Parliamentary party.
The opposition coalition argues this would be tantamount to undermining coalition agreements between political parties.
In the lawsuit, Azimio observed that the wrangles in Jubilee that resulted in a breakaway faction led by Sabina Chege were internal wrangles that could be solved through a National Delegates Conference.
With no NDC held to solve the internal wrangles, Azimio faulted Wetangula for what they perceive as favoring the breakaway group which has agreed to work with the Kenya Kwanza alliance led by President William Ruto.
“I have been further advised that the Speaker’s decision (to recognize Jubilee as a Parliamentary Party) is a personal decision, unconstitutional, with ill motives and intended to cause splitting up in the coalition,” the petition read in part.
“The Speaker acted contrary to the Constitution by declaring that Jubilee Party is a parliamentary party yet it is still part of the Petitioners coalition.”
On October 25, Wetangula recognized Jubilee as a Parliamentary Party, the same day he approved Chege’s removal as National Assembly Deputy Minority Whip.
Speaker Wetangula concluded at the time that Jubilee had met the criteria for being constituted as a Parliamentary party.
