President Uhuru Kenyatta, campaigns in Saboti, October 18, 2017. [Photo|PSCU]President Uhuru Kenyatta has maintained he will not hold negotiations with the opposition, saying Kenyans should be allowed to vote in peace on October 26. Speaking in Saboti, Trans Nzoia County on Wednesday, Kenyatta warned the opposition against intimidating the electoral agency IEBC. “There will be no sitting in boardrooms to negotiate and share government. It is Kenyans who have the right to decide who will be president,” he said. He noted those who do not want to participate in the October 26 fresh election were free to do so but should not curtail the rights of those who want to vote on that day. “The same way nobody is being forced to participate in the October 26 election, similarly no one has the right to stop those who want to participate,” Kenyatta said.
Accompanied by Deputy President William Ruto, during the campaign, Uhuru also spoke on Jubilee’s development agenda for Trans Nzoia County.Also present were Water and Irrigation CS Eugene Wamalwa, Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka, MPs Janet Nangabo (Trans Nzoia Women Rep), Michael Mbito (Senator, Trans Nzoia) and Didmus Wekesa Barasa (Kimilili) among others.His warning, comes few hours after the IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati, called on Uhuru and his rival Raila Odinga, to sit down and hold discussions, before the fresh elections, since the country is divided. He said this, moments after Commissioner Roselyn Akombe resigned.Uhuru also called on Kenyans to pray for the country, ahead of the elections, and asked citizens to forgive each other.