Raila Odinga’s NASA coalition could block the repeat presidential election in its strongholds unless its demands for changes at the IEBC are met.
Raila, his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka and their presidential chief campaigner Musalia Mudavadi yesterday launched a nationwide campaign to block the Wafula Chebukati-led IEBC from holding the election until radical reforms are done.
National Super Alliance leaders have said they do not trust the electoral commission as currently constituted and want 12 staff members they believe contributed greatly to the bungled August 8 presidential poll to be barred from overseeing the upcoming poll.
“Officers who facilitated the display of figures purporting them to be results but which at the Supreme Court hearing were disowned by the Commission as mere statistics must get out of the way. That is where reforms at the IEBC will begin.
“Kenyans are coming for you. Salvage what you can and run. There will be no election with you in office,” Raila said.
Deputy President William Ruto, however, hit at the NASA leaders and maintained that the election will be held next month as scheduled by the IEBC.
IEBC commissioners Abdi Guliye and Molu Boya, CEO Ezra Chiloba, his deputies Betty Nyabuto and Marijan Hussein Marijan, Immaculate Kassait (Voter Registration director), James Muhati (ICT director) and Praxedes Tororey (Legal Services director) are among senior officials the Opposition want removed.
Chiloba’s legal advisor Moses Kipkogey is targeted in the opposition’s push for reforms.