IEBC Vice Chair Juliana Cherera reveals why they disowned presidential results
IEBC Vice Chair Juliana Cherera has revealed why they disowned the presidential results announced by Wafula Chebukati.
Juliana Cherera, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) have come out to explain why she and three commissioners disowned results that declared Deputy President William Ruto as the president-elect.
On Wednesday, August 16, Cherera stated that IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati gave them a wrong aggregation of the results noting that they never had time to verify the results.
She argued that the calculations that Chebukati gave them a total of 100.01 percent.
The IEBC Vice Chair stated that they declined to acknowledge the results because the accuracy of the source of the figures tallied was not comprehensive.
She maintained that the results did not indicate the total number of registered voters, voters cast and rejected votes in this regard and they lacked a critical ingredient naming a total number of total votes cast.
“We concluded that the process that went into the generation of Form 34 C used to declare Ruto was opaque. Guided by the authority of the Maina Kiai case as upheld by the Supreme Court in 2017, we state categorically that the results of the elections declared by Chebukati belong to himself and do not represent that of IEBC,” she added.
IEBC Vice Chair Juliana Cherera added that tallying was not known to the commissioners as it was being done by the technical staff and Chebukati did not explain to them the outcome despite questions being raised.
“By the time Wafula Chebukati was declaring the results, verification from certain constituencies had not been announced,” stated Cherera.
Commissioner Justus Wanderi stated that the commissioners did not do the tallying and he further explained that the data was compiled by the technical team and submitted to the commissioners at 4:30 pm.
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