The Council of Governors (CoG) has rubbished the latest ranking of governors by a London based advisory firm, All African Advisors (AAA) on Tuesday.
In a statement, the council's chairman Wycliffe Oparanya said the agency didn't not seek the approval of the council as established under the Statistics Amendment Act, 2019, that ensures data collection and processing is conducted in accordance with international best practices.
"The council is of the considered view that the company has no locus to purport to have conducted a survey in the country with Kenya's interest at heart," CoG's statement read in part as quoted by Standard.
According to CoG, the council never received questionnaires from the agency conducting the survey, adding that the ranking is a political strategy to malign the leadership in counties.
"We would like to clarify that to date, the Council of Governors, which is the coordinating body of all the 47 county governments, has not received the alleged questionnaire and in effect none of the county governments have," Oparanya said.
"The Council of Governors is equally aware that this is a political strategy to malign the leadership in the counties," he added
CoG urged the media to avoid giving airtime to the 'fraudulent pollster', since governors were being judged without being heard.
The council is now demanding for an apology from the agency, failure to which it has threatened to take legal action.
"We demand and equivocal apology from Mr.Steven Kanyatte and his company failure to which the council shall take legal action," Oparanya's statement read in part.