<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cUpon wide and consultative deliberations, and in compliance and in accordance with its mandate under Article 8.2 of the Party Constitution, the National Executive Committee has determined to designate the Vice-Chairperson, Hon. Hassan
Omar Hassan to act as the Secretary General on interim basis,\u201d the statement adds.<\/p>\n
The changes follows drama at the party headquarters in Nairobi, during which Joe Khalende declared himself the Secretary General leading to chaos when he was attacked and ejected.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s statement did not however, make reference to these events, only addressing party grassroots elections which, it said, need to be accelerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have noted the progressive continuation of our grassroots election in the first phase, and we have directed that the National Elections Board to make necessary adjustments and continue with the elections in the rest of the counties as earlier communicated,\u201d the NEC statement said, \u201cthese elections will ultimately offer the members of the party an opportunity to choose their leaders from the polling centre all the way to the national level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malala has been at crosshairs with members in recent weeks, with some accusing him of championing agendas not supported by the party.<\/p>\n
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![<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cUpon wide and consultative deliberations, and in compliance and in accordance with its mandate under Article 8.2 of the Party Constitution, the National Executive Committee has determined to designate the Vice-Chairperson, Hon. HassanOmar Hassan to act as the Secretary General on interim basis,\u201d the statement adds.<\/p>\nThe changes follows drama at the party headquarters in Nairobi, during which Joe Khalende declared himself the Secretary General leading to chaos when he was attacked and ejected.<\/p>\nFriday\u2019s statement did not however, make reference to these events, only addressing party grassroots elections which, it said, need to be accelerated.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have noted the progressive continuation of our grassroots election in the first phase, and we have directed that the National Elections Board to make necessary adjustments and continue with the elections in the rest of the counties as earlier communicated,\u201d the NEC statement said, \u201cthese elections will ultimately offer the members of the party an opportunity to choose their leaders from the polling centre all the way to the national level.\u201d<\/p>\nMalala has been at crosshairs with members in recent weeks, with some accusing him of championing agendas not supported by the party.<\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 2 \u2013 Cleophas Malala has been ousted as United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Secretary General following weeks of intense wrangles in the party. Malala was kicked out of the position during a National Executive Council meeting presided over by the party\u2019s National Chairperson Cecil Mbarire. \u201cThe appointment of Hon Cleophas Malala as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-02-at-08.50.10.jpeg\"){kind=link}