Prior to the political party’s registration, the Katonga Road-based Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) members submitted a name, colours, symbol, and slogan, all of which the Electoral Commission refused to reserve.
The former members of FDC petitioned the election commission last month to reserve their political party’s name, colour, symbol, and slogan.
They disclosed that the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) is the name of their political party, led by Wafula Ogutu, the FDC’s founding member, and eleven other members.
Oduman Charles Okello claims that following a disagreement with the leadership at the Najjanankumbi party headquarters, faction members decided to create a new party during their Delegates’ Conference last week.
“We have finished preserving the party’s name, which we believe will liberate this country.” I know the electoral commission has not yet done their part, but we have submitted the new political vehicles that can transform this nation, the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF),” he said.
“Our colour is red and royal blue and our symbol will be a phone so that you can all say where you are.” Our slogan is freedom for all and all for freedom because we have been under captivity for a very long time. We have done our part, so we leave the electoral commission to do its part so that we embark on collecting signatures for registering this party. We have a counsellor that will help us apply so that we do the due diligence,” he said.
While responding to the former FDC Members, Mulekwah Russell Jacques Leonard, the secretary of the electoral commission, said the Political Parties and Organisations Act, 2005 (as amended), requires that the application for registration of a political party or organisation should be accompanied, among others, by a full description of the identifying symbols, slogans, and colours.
She said their submission merely stated the colours being white and royal blue and a symbol of a phone, without a full description of the said symbol and colours submitted for reservation.
“The submissions in respect of names of the proposed political party, People’s People Power Front (PPF), which is likely to confuse members of the public,” she said.
She stated that the choice of white and royal blue as colours closely resembles that of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and is likely to confuse the general public.
The Political Parties and Organisations’ Act prohibits the usage of a colour, name, or initials of any registered political party or organisation.
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