Uhuru Kenyatta: I am in the process of handing over Jubilee Party leadership
By Ndiritu Wanjiru, May 25, 2026The fourth president and Jubilee party leader, Uhuru Kenyatta, has insisted that he is not involved in politics but is merely supervising a leadership transition in the party, according to the constitution.
In a meeting of Jubilee delegates in Kiambu County on Monday, May 25, 2026, Uhuru said the party had been subjected to many challenges since he left office, and some unnamed people are undermining the party’s internal reorganisation process with protracted court actions.
“We are discussing our Jubilee Party, where we are and where we are going. As you know, we have had challenges in our party, and as you know, not our own problems but problems brought by others.
“You know, since I left office as president and handed over power respectfully and peacefully, after that, my work was to embark on a plan to unite the Jubilee Party and give it the new leaders, and we started the process in the constitutional framework and in our party’s constitution,” Uhuru said.
“But others decided to use the opportunity to take us to court, and we have spent two to three years; we have been struggling for nothing because we were of the idea that the public should be given a chance to elect their leaders. I am now in the process of a handover, but others are saying that I am engaging in politics. If they had let me, I would be done by now,” Uhuru added.
The former president said that Jubilee had already started a leadership transition process in accordance with the party’s constitution prior to the legal wrangles that set it back.
Since he had come out of the presidency and passed down power in a good and peaceful way, he added that his work had been to start a new plan to unite the Jubilee Party and provide new leaders for it.
New leadership in place
Noting that the party is in the process of confirming the current leadership in the party, Uhuru decried the party’s entanglements in court cases over the past two to three years, instead of allowing for the democratic election of its leadership.
The retired president insisted that he wasn’t yet starting a comeback into partisan politics but is instead in the process of formally passing over the party leadership.
His comments are coming at a time when political heat in the country is mounting ahead of the 2027 general election, with critics allied to the government side criticising him for actively engaging in opposition politics.