President Uhuru Kenyatta has told Cord that he has no powers to remove the embattled IEBC commissioners from office under the current constitution.
Uhuru who was speaking in Mandera on Thursday during a 3-day presidential tour to North Eastern region, said that he has no absolute powers like former President Moi to tamper with the constitution at will.
"I do not have absolute powers like former President Moi. Those powers have been taken away from me by this constitution and given to other institutions. Moi was ruling under a different constitutional dispensation from the one we have today," said Kenyatta.
"So, even if you demonstrate the whole year, I do not have powers to change the constitution or remove Issack Hassan and IEBC from office. If I try it today, a Kenyan will be in court tomorrow to have my action declared unconstitutional," he added.
Uhuru also ruled out the possibility of having an IPPG (Inter-Party Parliamentary Group) kind of an arrangement where both coalitions would nominate preferred commissioners into IEBC as it happened in 1997.
Cord has been calling for such an arrangement. He said that by agreeing to such a thing, it would be going against the constitution he swore to protect when he took power in 2013.