[Jubilee Party headquarters. The outfit has resolved to set up its own parallel voter tallying centre ahead of the polls. Courtesy: The Star]
President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Party has announced that it will set up its own parallel tallying centre during the forthcoming polls.
The outfit is reportedly setting up a system that will collect, verify, tally and relay the Presidential results.
The announcement by the party comes just months after they castigated the opposition coalition NASA for laying foundation for a similar plan.
At the time, Jubilee opposed NASA's scheme to transmit presidential results, arguing that the move could throw the country into anarchy.
Jubilee further argued that NASA had sensed defeat and were looking for shortcuts to declare themselves winners.
“It is now obvious that our friends in the opposition have no formula of winning an election because they have neither agenda nor candidate and they want to have shortcut to win the August election by planning to establish a parallel tallying centre to announce results for themselves as winners,” Deputy President William Ruto observed during a political rally in Eldama Ravine on March this year.
"It is only IEBC which is constitutionally mandated to have a tallying centre during elections," he added.