Ezra Chiloba, the IEBC's commission secretary and CEO, at the agency's office at Anniversary Towers in Nairobi in April 2017. Nasa has rejected the commission's plan to only announce the final presidential tally. [Photo: nation.co.ke]The National Super Alliance has rejected a plan by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to announce the final results for the presidential election without periodic updates of figures changing when results trickle into the national tallying centre from constituencies.Senator James Orengo, a co-chairman of Nasa’s National Coordinating Committee, said in a letter to IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati on Wednesday that IEBC should play by its constitutionally assigned mandate of independence and promoting democracy.“It appears that the IEBC intends to bury itself at a bunker at Bomas on August 8, 2017, and then come out into the auditorium a day or two later to announce results which have not been received and tallied in an open and transparent manner," said Orengo in a letter released on Wednesday evening to newsrooms.He added: "In effect, the country will be kept in an agonising suspense as the results are cooked and doctored. It is unacceptable." On Tuesday, IEBC’s Chief Executive Ezra Chiloba said that unlike in previous elections, this year there will be no periodic announcements of the votes that presidential aspirants have received, noting that only the final tally will be announced.

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