IEBC vice chairperson Consolata Nkatha Maina at Kariokor Polling station on August 8, 2017. [Photo: The Star]A number of events that unfolded on Tuesday, could just shape what has been the NASA's narrative since its candidate Raila Odinga pulled out fom the October 26 repeat presidential poll.NASA has continued to insist that there will be no elections on October 26 without expounding how it will achieve that. However, Raila is expected to issue a 'big announcement' today that could help the country to understand NASA's narrative better.Though some Tuesday's events are pretty normal, their occurrence at such a critical moment could not be seen as such, and questions were bound to be raised. Here are some of them.First, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Wafula Chebukati gazetted his deputy chairperson Connie Maina as the deputy presidential returning officer. The appointment, which is a normal procedure before a general election was, however, read with a lot of suspicions.Then came a case filed by Jubilee seeking to have Nasa leader Raila Odinga and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka held in contempt of court for demanding a postponement of the election.The case was slated for hearing a day after the election by Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu. Mwilu's driver was later to be shot at a mall in Nairobi though his boss is reported as not to have been in the car during the incident.Still, on Tuesday, CJ David Maraga asked the courts, including the Supreme Court, to sit and hear election-related cases, despite Acting Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i making Wednesday a public holiday.Maraga at the same time certified a case by three civil society activists as urgent and must be heard and determined on Wednesday.In the political sphere, as Nation reports, the twists and turns continued. Odinga and the Nasa leadership contradicted each other on whether there would be demonstrations on Thursday."We have not told people to demonstrate on the polling day. We have not said that at all. We have told people to stay away," Raila told BBC during an interview as quoted by Nation.But the Nasa secretariat and Odinga’s lead lawyer, Siaya Senator James Orengo, said the demonstrations would go on.

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