Narok County Jubilee party leaders in a meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto at State House, September 19, 2017. [Photo|PSCU]President Uhuru Kenyatta has said he expects fresh presidential elections to be held within the 60-day period set out in the Constitution after the Supreme Court annulled his August 8 election win.He said no one had the right to impose conditions on the IEBC before the repeat elections were held, and that threats by the opposition coalition NASA, amounted to bullying, intimidation, and rogue politics.President Kenyatta spoke when he received a 8,000-strong member delegation from Narok County, at which former gubernatorial candidate Patrick ole Ntutu and 10 MCAs pledged full support for his re-election campaign.“The election must be done within 60 days (of the Supreme Court decision) and two, the election must be conducted by IEBC as required by the Constitution,” Kenyatta said.President Kenyatta was accompanied by Deputy President William Ruto and Narok Governor Samuel ole Tunai.The President said “noises” by the opposition that they would boycott or block the election amounted to empty banter.“We are telling our opponents to stop intimidating Kenyans. Nobody can block the election. And we will not give in to any kind of intimidation from anybody,” Kenyatta said.He told the opposition to seek votes from the electorate countrywide instead of focusing on issuing threats. He argued that threats and press conferences in Nairobi had yielded no votes for the opposition in the August 8 elections.Deputy President Ruto trashed the opposition’s demands on the repeat presidential election, saying no one had the authority to interfere with the right of Kenyans to exercise their democratic will.“Our competitors should stop telling us that there will be no election. Who else has powers and authority to tell Kenyans that they cannot exercise their constitutional right?” wondered Ruto.He told off the opposition leaders, saying they should not take Jubilee for granted thinking that its leaders were weak just because they accepted to abide by the law.The DP said Kenyans will not allow individuals to continue using unconstitutional means to interfere with independent organisations.“The opposition used unconstitutional means to remove Samuel Kivuitu from office, a similar method was used to remove Isaac Hassan from office and now they want to use unconstitutional means to remove the IEBC secretariat. This will not be allowed,” said the Deputy President.

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