06/12/2022
PRESS STATEMENT
BY: KENYA UNION PARTY (KUP)
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press:
We have convened this press briefing to offer guidance to the membership of the Kenya Union Party (KUP) and to all Kenyans on the emerging threats to our constitutional democracy.
We, the Kenya Union Party, joined the Azimio One Kenya Alliance in the run-up to the last General Election in exercise of our political rights as a political party. We did this because we genuinely believed that the Azimio One Kenya Alliance represented a new dawn for our country in the form of principled, policy-driven, and visionary leadership.
Aside from its management of the election campaigns, and its penchant for unilateral decision making; recent actions by the Azimio leadership have starkly shown us that the promises that led us to join the coalition were hollow. Indeed, today the Azimio coalition represents the greatest threat to democracy, the rule of law, and national cohesion in our nationβs recent history.
Arising therefrom, today we lay bare the instruments that were meant to hold the coalition together and to guide our path forward; so that Kenyans may see the disingenuous and deceitful nature of the current arrangement.
In that regard, the Kenya Union Party wishes to notify our members and the general public as follows:
I. The Kenya Union Party expresses its disapproval of affiliate parties being annexed as family holdings and blatantly being disregarded within the Azimio fraternity;
II. That the just concluded EALA nominations affirms that Azimio is a dynastic enterprise that is in reality a personal vessel for a chosen few;
III. That the Kenya Union Party unequivocally disassociates itself from the planned demonstrations by the ODM party under the guise of a collective Azimio decision; for the reason that the same were not discussed and approved by Azimioβs constituent parties;
IV. That for the avoidance of doubt, the true Azimio Coalition, and not the renegade ODM brigade, fully