President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to receive the recently passed bill on Electoral Laws tomorrow, Tuesday, amid intensified pressure from the opposition and other stakeholders urging the president not to assent it or face mass action.
Close sources to the president say that the president is yet to see the bill in its current form to make any firm decision.
Leaders across the divide have called for dialogue and negotiations on the bill, to avoid pushing the country into a political crisis.
The bill was passed by the national assembly and the senate last week, in what was a heated debate which was marred with intense argument, especially in the national assembly.
The president finds himself in a catch 22 situation; assenting the bill might trigger mass protest, with Cord urging him not to sign what they term as a poisonous law.
“If you care about this nation, don’t assent the bill into law, and that might indicate that you are a president who might be considered even in the next elections, but if you sign that bill, you’d have destroyed your nation,” said Kalonzo Musyoka at a past rally.
Cord is already assembling its aspirants for a meeting at the Bomas of Kenya, where the issue is set to take centre stage this week.
Jubilee supports a manual system to avoid a system failure during elections, like a case that was witnessed in the last election.