Interviews pieced together from top party officials paint a picture of a shambolic and rudderless team unable to effectively hit the ground for popular but doomed candidate Kariri Njama. "It is easy to have the blame on party officials but we are relegated to the periphery as some people ran what should be our mandate," the official said. Mathai, a former TNA executive director, said the mandarins literally took over leaving party officials as mere spectators. Mathai claimed the same bureaucrats bungled the Juja parliamentary by-election in which little known People Empowerment Party beat Jubilee in mid-May. The Jubilee Party has been grabbed and has been reduced to a paper party,” she said on Saturday in during a function in Laikipia county.

Source: The Star July 19, 2021 02:03 UTC