Ford Kenya has rubbished the ouster of its leader Moses Wetang’ula as the Senate Minority leader saying it is a non-issue.
The Bungoma senator was kicked out during a Nasa parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday and Siaya Senator James Orengo voted to replace him.
Orengo is poised to be deputised by Kakamega senator Cleophas Malala.
Following the move, Ford Kenya says it will now assume the role of the official Opposition alongside Wiper and Amani National Congress parties.
The party’s national executive council members said they will, going forward, operate as the official minority.
“The party will now live up to its constitutionally mandated role to hold the government and its new partners to account on behalf of the Kenyan people,” Tongaren MP Eseli Simiyu said.
He said the plot to remove Wetangula is an ongoing machination by the ODM party to divide NASA by ridiculing and demonising other affiliate parties and their leadership.