US Secretary of State John Kerry delivered President Barack Obama’s message to Cord leader Raila Odinga during a meeting on Monday.

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Obama urged the Opposition to work with the government in a bid to avoid violence during 2017 polls.

President Obama was concerned about the bloody anti-IEBC demonstrations that were held by Cord in its quest to oust IEBC commissioners.

The Opposition accused the commissioners of plotting to collude with Jubilee to rig the election.

Kerry met Raila, Cord principals Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Wetangula, ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi and Narc Kenya’s Martha Karua at the Villa Rosa Kempinski Hotel in Nairobi.

The US Secretary of State also said Obama’s administration does not favour any candidate for President come 2017.

“The United States want free, fair and transparent elections conducted in a peaceful manner. We do not want a recurrence of violence like it was in 2007,” Kerry said while addressing the press.

The US Secretary of State urged the opposition leaders to rally behind a report by the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on electoral reforms which was debated yesterday in the National Assembly.

“Kenya has come a long way since the elections in 2007. It is up to leaders on all sides to ensure that violence that took place in the aftermath of that election is never repeated,” he said.

Kerry visited the country to discuss regional security and to prepare Kenya’s business summit with the US to be held on September 18 in New York.