Jubilee Party leader, President Uhuru Kenyatta. [Photo/Kenyabuzz]
Ahead of today’s delivery of the full judgement on the nullification of the presidential results of August polls, the Jubilee Party has made a request to IEBC.
The president’s party on Tuesday wrote to Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Chairman Wafula Chebukati, informing him that they will skip today’s meeting.
Party secretary general Raphael Tuju said they will be paying attention to the Supreme Court’s full judgement to be delivered from 10am.
“We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated September 14, 2017, on the subject of the fresh presidential election calling for a consultative meeting slated for Wednesday, September 20, 2017. We, however, request to have the said meeting postponed and held at an appropriate future date,” read the letter by Jubilee sated September 19, 2017.
“We will need to go through the detailed judgement so that our contribution can be more constructive,” Tuju added.
The IEBC had called for a meeting between Jubilee and National Super Alliance leaders to discuss an alternative presidential election date.
This is after Safran Morpho said it would be impossible to reset the Kenya Integrated Elections Management System (KIEMS) kits and hold the election on October 17 as earlier announced by IEBC.