President Uhuru Kenyatta at a past campaign rally [PHOTO/the-star.co.ke]
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s senior advisor on Constitutional and Legal Affairs Abdikadir Mohamed has hit out at the NASA brigade over their calls to disband the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
Mohamed, who was the chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee which drafted the 2010 Constitution, said that the former Prime Minister has no capacity to reorganise state institutions at his whim.
“It does not happen every other day that a sitting President humbles himself before the law, awaits a court decision, accepts it amid strong reservations and agrees to go back to the people. The least such circumstances require is another grandstanding on who conducts the repeat polls,” he said.
Mohamed argued that NASA must take cue from Uhuru's magnanimity of accepting the court verdict even though it did not favour him.
He said the court had authorised that it is the IEBC that conducts the general polls, and that Raila's calls to disband the electoral body is in bad faith.