Ford-Kenya now says that it’s against calls for a referendum adding that the move is meant to create positions for certain individuals and families.
Without mentioning names, the party said Kenyans should first seek ways of reforming the troubled IEBC which in the past has been rocked by disputes.
This emerged when the party's women league converged in Seasons Hotel in Gilgil Nakuru county ahead of their Parliamentary Group meeting on Saturday.
Addressing the press on Friday at Seasons Hotel in Gilgil, the party leader Moses Wetangula wondered how the referendum would be carried out without a working electoral commission.
“The IEBC currently constitutes of three commissioners meaning that they cannot hold a referendum thus rendering the current calls as irrelevant,” he said.
Wetangula said that the planned referendum was meant to benefit some few individuals adding that Kenyan needed other reforms and not a referendum.
“We want a united Kenya and we are opposed to ongoing plans to hold a referendum so that few individuals from certain families can get positions,” he said.
Wetangula said that the country should concentrate on revamping institutions of governance by strengthening and making them independent.
“Instead of calling for the referendum we should be seeking ways of supporting devolution, strengthening our security agents and stop the ongoing corruption,” he said.
On the recent ‘handshake' Wetangula said that all Kenyans should be involved adding they party would make its position known after the parliamentary group meeting.
“We take this opportunity to send our condolences to the families who lost their kin following the Solai tragedy in Nakuru on Wednesday evening,” he said.