Former Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju has stated that he left Jubilee Party for personal reasons.
Speaking during an interview with NTV's Fixing the Nation, Tuu stated that he had no hard feelings.
"I left Jubilee so that I am free to air my opinions going forward without it being said I am talking on behalf of someone. It's essentially stepping into a free space, and I can talk without worrying," he said on Monday, August 25.
“I have no hard feelings. I just quit the party to be free."
The former Minister said he had come to a conscious decision to resign as a member of the Jubilee party so that he can express himself freely without contradicting the party.
"Now I can talk on behalf of myself, and the party cannot turn around and say, "How can you say that?”
“So it's essentially stepping aside; stepping into a free space where I can talk to you now without worrying what Jubilee or Azimio party will say.”
Tuju, who quit last week in a long letter addressed to party leader and former President Uhuru Kenyatta, said it was a personal decision and no one pushed him out.
“This is personal decision; just like I made personal decision to join Jubilee party when obviously the easy thing for me coming from Luo Nyanza was to join ODM where from the ethnic aspect of politics it would have been very easy for me to capture a position as MP for Rarieda or Siaya Governor but I made a conscious to work with Jubilee in the same way I have made a conscious decision to resign from Jubilee. There are no hard feelings," he said.
He told NTV's Fixing the Nation that he was not interested in running for any other political seat for now.
Tuju said the problem in Kenya is that everything is seen in terms of political position, yet the problems facing the country are multiple and most of them are structural.
"The resources which are made available to the counties are hardly enough for development; most of it goes to recurrent expenditure. Sometimes it's nothing to do with the individual occupying the office," he said.
