DP William Ruto has called on NASA leader Raila Odinga to stop intimidating IEBC. [Photo/Citzen TV]Deputy President William Ruto has scorned NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga for his unrelenting attacks on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
Soon after Mr Odinga announced NASA’s plans to sensitize electorates across the country on their anti-IEBC calls, DP Ruto has stated on his Twitter page that the commission’s officials are shielded from coercion by constitutional provisions.
Mr Ruto said; “Every Kenyan, those at IEBC included have the protection of the Constitution. Nobody, however mighty, should threaten them in any way or form.”
The DP branded Mr Odinga as a man who cannot win an election but instead resorted to intimidating Kenyans with “threats of violence, chaos, bloodshed and anrchy”.
He tweeted: "For how long will one man, unable to win elections, continue to blackmail 45m Kenyans using threats of violence, chaos, bloodshed and anarchy?"
Even as the opposition affirmed their calls to have IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba and other 11 officials vacate office, the DP said IEBC had the constitutional privilege of preparing overseeing the repeat presidential elections in October.
“In accordance with our Kenyan constitution IEBC will prepare & oversee presidential elections in October,” he said on his Twitter page on Sunday.
“With a past of coups, violence & bloodshed no politician should unconstitutionally deny other Kenyans their Constitutional right to vote.”
The opposition has in recent days amplified its anti-IEBC charade, saying that the October elections will not take place without reforms at the IEBC.
They insist that persons that facilitated the August “bungled” elections were still in office and the opposition would not risk going to polls with the same faces that allegedly have links with their rivals on the Jubilee side.