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Newly appointed UDA Secretary General Hassan Omar held discussions with party officials and staff. [Courtesy]

Things have fallen apart in the ruling United Democratic and the centre can no longer hold. Friday was a day to remember, preceded by a night meeting that culminated with dawn court orders.

By daybreak, the four-year-old party that has been aping the Chinese Communist Party had sacked its outspoken and controversial Secretary General Cleophas Malala.

By the time he showed up with a court order, engulfed by plumes of stinging tear gas smoke, ostensibly to stop his ouster, Malala had been stripped off all powers, rendering him persona non-grata to the the Kenya Kwanza high table.

UDA which has the genes of the former ruling Jubilee and Kanu parties, which defined the template of how politics is played in the country, seems to follow the same route and now joins the long list of parties with suits pending in courts.

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