Chaos rock Gachagua’s DCP party as members claim overnight leadership changes
Chaos rock Gachagua's DCP party as members claim overnight leadership changes
Chaos erupted on Saturday, September 6, at the office of Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) in Meru following frustrations of party members over the overnight change of party leadership in the county.
This came after the county party chairmanship held by Timothy Kithinji was removed and replaced by James Mithika, a move that members and aspirants blame on senior officials of the party.
Aspirants have threatened to exit the party and bar party leader Rigathi Gachagua from visiting Meru County for political matters.
They said that the change in officials and the manner in which it was executed amounts to a lack of integrity in the party.
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The party’s national secretary general, who had come to oversee the changes, confirmed the extension of elections for two weeks to allow consultations with party members and delegates.
“We will strengthen when we have a list of officials that is balanced in terms of gender,” said Hezron Obaga, DCP party secretary general.
“I have seen that this party has no transparency and has started with corruption early. If they can change the chairman overnight, they can also deny us tickets,” said Benjamin Kimathi, DCP party aspirant.
“That is why we will tell our people not to pay party fees because we believed we were investing where our youth leader was. Now we can even tell the youth to stop, because we are the ones who went to the ground, faced teargas during demonstrations for this party to save us,” said Jimry Murithi, DCP party aspirant.
“We still have left a gap for consultation as most of our aspirants want youth representation in Meru,” said Timothy Kithinji, former DCP county chairman.
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