[ANC Leader Musalia Mudavadi. He has questioned the recent reshuffle of Election returning officers IEBC. Courtesy: Daily Nation]
Amani National Congress Party leader Musalia Mudavadi has questioned the recent reshuffle of county returning officers by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
In a statement to newsrooms on Tuesday, the Opposition alliance NASA co-principal alleged a plot by the electoral agency to manipulate the outcome of the forthcoming general elections, observing that the redeployments were punctuated with bias and ethnic profiling.
“We reject those postings not because we are against the officers but want to protect their integrity against negative perceptions their posting has generated to the effect that they are an advance team to steal the August elections," he noted.
“We in Nasa are, therefore, unable to discern the criteria and logic of IEBC posting members of only one community as returning officers to serve in certain electoral areas, especially the western region," he added.
The changes were made last week and affects all the 290 constituencies.
The changes further saw the scrapping of regional coordinators who were replaced by 47 County election managers.