Homa Bay county women representative Gladys Wanga. She has claimed IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati has been compromised. [Photo:standardmedia.co.ke]
An MP allied to the National Super Alliance (Nasa) has sensationally claimed that IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati was compromised to change his position on the team that should manage the October 17 repeat presidential polls.
Homa Bay county woman MP Gladys Wanga said Monday that it was apparent that Chebukati who addressed the nation on Monday after a retreat in Naivasha was a compromised fellow who was speaking on behalf of some unseen political forces.
"It is obvious the Chebukati whom we saw today telling the nation that the IEBC is now united is a compromised fellow. He initially seemed to be acting out if his gut feeling especially when he formed a project team to oversee the repeat polls but at the moment he has been compromised and is not his own man", she said.
Chebukati had on Saturday led his colleagues to a two-day retreat at the Great Rift Valley Lodge in Naivasha in a bid to address thorny issues that threatened to destabilize the poll agency's preparedness for the repeat polls.
The vocal MP further upped the calls for IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba to resign saying he had been adversely implicated in the aborted August 8 polls.
"We still maintain that Chiloba and all other poll officials who bungled the August 8 polls must resign", she told Citizen TV.
Incidentally, the CEO who was at the eye of the storm following Chebukati's tough questions to him is said to have been absorbed back and will once more oversee the repeat polls after the retreat.