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The party was expected to to conduct party elections for new officeholders in March last year given that the three-year term for most of the interim officials expired November 2019.
However the polls could not take place because of the coronavirus disruptions and what is said to be failure by the President to sanction the exercise.
Most of the national interim officials, save for secretary general Raphael Tuju, were picked to steer the party on November 5, 2016.
Tuju was installed as Jubilee SG and head of the Jubilee party secretariat in March 2017.
Murathe on January 6, 2019 publicly resigned as Jubilee vice chairman at the height of escalating hostilities with Ruto, but he is said to have never formally submitted any resignation letter to Uhuru.
The wars in the party and the poor performance in the by-elections have irked majority of members who are now demanding changes.
In a span of six months, the ruling party has lost five by-elections which are right in its supposed strongholds.
On Tuesday, the party was beaten in the Juja parliamentary contest, a constituency in the President’s Kiambu county, as well as the Rurii ward by-election in neighbouring Nyandarua county.
The Jubilee candidate Susan Waititu was beaten by a huge margin by George Koimburi, running on Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria’s People’s Empowerment Party.
In Rurii ward, Francis Muraya of Deputy President William Ruto’s UDA party won by garnering 4,303 votes against Jubilee’s Peter Thinji who got 3,143.
In March, Jubilee was beaten hands down in the London ward by-election in Nakuru county.
UDA’s Antony Nzuki carried the day after defeating Francis Njoroge of Jubilee with 1,707 votes against 1,385.
Kiambu Woman Rep Gathoni Wamuchomba kicked off the storm on Wednesday evening when she said it is time the party should go back to the drawing board. On Friday, she insisted that democracy should prevail in the party.
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