The Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition Executive Director Raphael Tuju has affirmed the formation is working towards ironing out the perceived differences.
Tuju said that a team within Azimio is dealing with the matter and there was no cause for alarm.
“We will resolve the matter, how it will be resolved, we'll leave the details to the team in the coalition which is going to deal with the matter. There is no cause for alarm,” Tuju said.
Tuju was speaking on Tuesday after holding a meeting with parties’ Secretaries-General at a hotel in Nairobi.
He added that the party coalition is intact regardless of the disagreements arising from within.
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“We are together but that does not mean that we have competing interests sometimes, that happens in every family. We don’t always agree on everything,” he added.
Tuju also assured Kenyans that Azimio is transparent, as the final document that will be presented to the Registrar of Political Parties will be accessible to the public for scrutiny.
“The final document which is going to be signed by the registrar of political parties is going to be in the public domain, everybody will have a chance to interrogate and criticise it,” Tuju said.
Tuju’s assurance comes against the backdrop of asides presented by Azimio affiliated parties in the form of four parties petitioning the Registrar of Political Parties seeking the halting of the registration of Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya.
According to the four parties namely Wiper, KANU, UDP and MDG claim, the agreement submitted on April 1, 2022, was altered without consent.
The four parties wrote a letter to the Registrar of Political Parties Ann Nderitu in which the parties raised 3 issues they insisted must be addressed before the registration of the outfit.
Among the three key issues raised by the four parties include; the number of caucuses. The parties said only three causes were agreed upon on April 1, 2022, and were presented as four on April 9, 2022.
The parties also demanded flag-bearer Raila Odinga’s running mate be automatically selected as the deputy party leader as a requirement.
They also wanted the members of the Coalition Council under Azimio to be increased from the initial seven members to eleven members.
These developments come just a week after Raila convened a housekeeping meeting with Azimio affiliate parties in Lavington Nairobi in which discussion encompassed inclusivity, equity and consultation.
Following the meeting, Raila abandoned plans to zone the country after a section of the coalition’s affiliate parties protested the move.
