[Nasa presidential candidate Raila Odinga addressing supporters at Jacaranda grounds in Donholm on May 28, 2017. [nation. co.ke]
NASA's threat 'no IEBC reforms, no election' could mean that the coalition could block the repeat presidential election in its strongholds.NASA legal counsel James Orengo speaking over the weekend during a rally in Siaya county, hinted at a possibility of using their 18 governors across the country to block the IEBC from conducting the poll in their regions."You know when we tell them there will be no election they think we will boycott. We mean there will be no election in this country. If Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho, Cornel Rasanga (Siaya), Josphat Nanok (Turkana) say no, can we have an election in Mombasa, Siaya and Turkana counties? Orengo said in his Dholuo dialect as quoted by Monday Star.Orengo, captured in a video clip, added that he would lead NASA leaders in ensuring that no election is also conducted in the cosmopolitan Nairobi city county under the leadership of Jubilee's Governor Mike Sonko.A scheme to block the election in NASA regions means only 27 Jubilee-controlled counties would participate in the exercise.Raila, his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka and their presidential chief campaigner Musalia Mudavadi on Sunday launched a nationwide campaign to block the Wafula Chebukati-led IEBC from holding the election until radical reforms are done.Orengo last Thursday in Rarieda constituency threatened to use a 'secret weapon' to have NASA electoral reforms demands addressed.The Siaya senator, however, vowed that NASA would only unleash the weapon should Jubilee 'conspire with the electoral commission to interfere with the repeat presidential poll'.