Raila reveals details of Azimio private meeting with 4 IEBC commissioners
Raila discloses the details of Azimio private meeting with 4 IEBC commissioners who disputed the presidential results
Raila discloses the details of Azimio private meeting with 4 IEBC commissioners who disputed the presidential results.
Azimio leader Raila Odinga defended a section of Azimio leaders who privately met former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), vice chairperson Juliana Cherera and three other commissioners at a rented apartment in Nairobi.
On Tuesday, December 27, Raila said in an interview with Citizen TV that his team had met with Cherera, Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyangaya, and Irene Masit to find out why they were contesting the results of the presidential election.
He made it apparent that after IEBC chairperson Wafula Chebukati announced the presidential results, a group of Azimio leaders who were mentioned during the tribunal hearing visited the four commissioners.
The reason why the politicians went to see these commissioners, according to Raila, was because they were saying No to presidential results.
“Our people had a legitimate reason to find out the truth because it had already been established ex post facto. Chebukati had already made the results public, he continued.
The Azimio leader insisted that the meeting was key to gathering evidence as to what had transpired and why the four disowned the results Chebukati announced at the national tallying centre at the Bomas of Kenya.
“They (Azimio politicians who visited) wanted to know what actually transpired,” Raila reiterated.
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Cherera, Masit, Nyang’aya, and Wanderi moved into the rented apartments at Yaya Centre immediately after holding a press conference to disown the results on Monday, August 15.
A few Azimio leaders, including former Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju and Nick Salat, visited the embattled four at the city apartments.
According to the testimony presented before a tribunal, the four allegedly met with Azimio leaders twice during their stay at the apartments.
Recounting his fifth unsuccessful stab at the presidency, Raila shifted all the blame to IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati.
“In my view, Chebukati should be prosecuted and sentenced to jail. What he has committed is a great crime against the humanity and people of this country,” the former Prime Minister explained.
“I believe strongly that he, not the other four commissioners, should be in the dock,” Raila concluded.
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