Hate campaign against Chebukati by Azimio leaders must stop – Wetangula
By evans.maritim, August 24, 2022Ford Kenya party leader Moses Wetangula now wants Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition leaders to stop faulting Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman Wafula Chebukati.
In a tweet on Wednesday, August 24, Wetangula said the sustained “hate campaign” against Chebukati by the leaders was unfortunate, asking them to stop it.
“The scandalous and misguided hate campaign against IEBC chairman Chebukati by the Azimio leaders is unfortunate and must stop!
“You will not choose the ref in the game. Your notoriety for disputing the outcome of every election is not new,” Wetanula wrote.
The Bungoma Senator-elect remarks came a few hours after Azimio’s presidential candidate Raila Odinga said Chebukati should not be allowed to preside over elections in Mombasa and Kakamega counties scheduled for August 29.
Raila says Chebukati should be disqualified
Speaking in Mombasa on Wednesday, August 24, Raila accused Chebukati of overseeing a fraudulent process in the August 9 polls.
He asked the IEBC boss to allow his deputy Juliana Cherera to oversee next week’s elections.
“We are saying that the Mombasa and Kakamega elections will be held under the supervision of IEBC Vice-chairperson Juliana Cherera. As an accused person, Chebukati should disqualify himself from the process and allow impartial people to take charge,” Raila said.
Cherera was among four commissioners who disowned the presidential results announced by Chebukati on Monday, August 15. The quartet claims the final tallying of the presidential results was not transparent.
Raila insists that Chebukati bungled the August 9 presidential election, whose outcome he rejected.
In a petition filed at the Supreme Court on Monday, Raila wants a seven-judge bench to nullify the election of Kenya Kwanza Alliance leader William Ruto as Kenya’s fifth president.
IEBC postponed a number of elections on August 9 over a ‘ballot mixup’.
Also on the list are parliamentary elections in Kitui Rural, Kacheliba, Pokot South, and Rongai Constituency in Nakuru County.
Elections for MCAs in Nyaki West ward (North Imenti Constituency in Meru County) and Kwa Njenga (Embakasi South in Nairobi County) were also postponed.