Gatundu South Member of Parliament Moses Kuria has piled more pressure on Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman Wafula Chebukati to quit office.
Kuria says Chebukati is unfit to hold public office and, therefore, should lead the remaining commissioners in resigning.
"I call upon Chebukati and all the remaining commissioners to do the honourable thing and resign to pave way for us in Parliament to embark on a process of establishing a new commission," Kuria said Monday.
This comes in the wake of the resignation of Vice-Chair Consolata Nkatha and commissioners Margaret Mwachanya and Paul Kurgat.
The trio left the electoral agency on Monday accusing Chebukati of turning the commission into a space for 'scrambling and chasing individual glory and credit'.
“Given this severe deterioration of confidence in the commission chair, we find our position as commissioners under his leadership no longer tenable,” the three commissioners said in a joint statement.
While reacting to the resignation, the IEBC boss vowed to remain put and assured Kenyans that the commission operations were on course and would remain focused on delivering its constitutional mandate.
"As the chairman, I am committed to the course of transforming the country’s electoral management body to make it more responsive and professional," Chebukati said.
But Kuria dismissed his remarks and insisted that he must quit as he was responsible for crippling the electoral agency.
"I have read Wafula Chebukati's long and winding statement with dismay. Its long on verbosity but a lilliput in substance. Wafula Chebukati is the most dithering and flip-flopping Chairman that our electoral management body has ever had. His indecisiveness almost plunged Kenya into constitutional turmoil," the MP said in a Facebook post.
Other leaders who have called on Chebukati to resign include Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen and his minority counterpart James Orengo.
“Chebukati must now lead other commissioners out of IEBC by tendering his resignation letter together with those remaining commissioners and the secretariat. Otherwise the country will go through a political circus around an issue which has tremendous and significant constitutional importance,” said Orengo, the Siaya Senator.