Jubilee has for the longest time been accused of commissioning polls by IPSOS-Synovate to discredit opposition leader Raila Odinga.
While some of this may be true, lead researcher at the firm Tom Wolf on Tuesday revealed that IPSOS was in a contract with The Star newspaper and it's the local daily that originally came up with the rather controversial question.
The major question is always whether Cord leader Raila Odinga should retire from active politics which on Tuesday forced Kenyans on Twitter to impale Wolf.
Speaking in a television interview, Dr Wolf said, “Ipsos has an annual contract with one newspaper in this country and they load three questions every time we do one of our quarterly surveys and they have exclusive rights for publishing the result of those questions.”
"This question about Raila's future came originally from them and they owned it and published it exclusively until the end of 2014 when they dropped it,” added Wolf who appeared on Citizen TV’s the Big Question show.
He added that when the local daily abandoned the question, IPSOS took it up because it thought it was an interesting topic to follow up on.
Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo who was in the interview said there was an ulterior motive behind the survey. He accused the researcher of crafting the poll question in a way that directs the respondent's answers and questioned why the pollster did not try to find out why his respondents felt that Raila should resign.
According to Kenyans.co.ke, Dr Wolf said the survey had too many questions and it was impossible to include open-ended interrogations.
In the latest poll whose results were released on Tuesday, 35 percent of those interviewed want Raila to retire while 34 percent want him to remain active and contest for the presidency.
Some 26 percent of the respondents want him to continue leading his party but support another candidate for the presidency.