NASA Principals Meet the IEBC over Question of a Parallel Tallying Centre before the August polls. [Photo/WERU TV]The opposition alliance NASA has called on IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati to walk the talk on reports of political interference within the commission.
Ford Kenya leader and NASA co-principal Moses Wetangula on Wednesday challenged IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati to build his legacy putting into consideration his predecessors at the commission.
“Nobody will remember the Commissioners who worked with Chebukati. If your position has become untenable, do the right thing and resign. To mitigate an injustice is to participate in the injustice,” Wetangula told Chebukati.
Wetangula further called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to embrace reforms within the IEBC since he is sure of his numbers.
“If Uhuru won the elections and he has the numbers, why can’t he agree to the reformation of the IEBC?” he asked.
The Bungoma senator scolded unnamed Commissioners of the electoral body whom he accused of driving a partisan agenda in the electoral body.
“Akombe has come out to say there is a problem in IEBC. There are four Commissioners who are working with Jubilee to frustrate credible elections,” he claimed.
“We want to know from the IEBC who were the people who messed up our elections. Without that, we can’t have elections.”
His ANC counterpart Musalia Mudavadi urged Chebukati to be decisive in the face of what he called interference with the independence of the electoral body from higher powers.
“If Akombe has spoken and resigned and said no way she can be party to rigging again, and Chebukati has also admitted that it is impossible to have credible elections, then on 26th will be an opinion poll of Jubilee supporters,” he said rousing cheers from the crowd.
IEBC Commissioner Roselyn Akombe resigned from New York on Wednesday morning saying the IEBC, with its current structure cannot conduct a credible election next week.
The commission’s chair later in the day expressed worry that the existing warring political stands-between Jubilee and NASA-threatened the delivery of a free, fair and credible election.