Raila’s plan to scuttle the IEBC recruitment process
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Raila plans to scuttle the IEBC recruitment process as they accuse Ruto of orchestrating changes to favour him in the 2027 polls
Raila plans to scuttle the IEBC recruitment process as they accuse Ruto of orchestrating changes to favour him in the 2027 polls.
The focus of Azimio leader Raila Odinga’s demonstrations will ultimately be on the effort to put an end to the ongoing IEBC recruitment of fresh electoral commissioners.
Insiders in the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party have framed this demand as an irreducible minimum for the coalition to ease off the pressure on President William Ruto, whom they accuse of orchestrating changes to the law on the appointment of electoral commissioners.
One of Mr. Odinga’s close friends alleged that Ruto changed the law to affect the appointment of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) officers in order to gain an advantage in the next elections.
Azimio MP Junet Mohammed said the coalition will not back down on its push to have the process stopped to address their concerns.
Mr. Mohammed claimed the selection has been designed to establish“a friendly” IEBC, hence the rush by the Kenya Kwanza administration to amend laws relating to the selection panel.
“What’s the mischief they were curing in changing the electoral law as early as two months after they had come to power?” Junet Mohamed posed.
And 82 parties defended the election of the Political Parties Liaison Committee representative to the selection panel, Mr. Evans Misati.
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The parties claimed some Azimio affiliated parties had tried to lobby for the boycott of the election on February 15 in Naivasha and further criticized Raila for discrediting the process.
“It is worth noting that, before the commencement of the voting exercise and even as the voting was going on, there were parties from the Azimio coalition that were lobbying fellow members to boycott the voting process in obedience to a call by Raila Odinga to do so. However, parties ignored this attempt to subvert a constitutional process and proceeded to vote,” read their joint statement.
“We the majority of parties that voted are offended by Raila Odinga’s apparent disregard for a process that already took place and in which 82 parties participated … and his continued insistence that political parties should be involved in the nomination of IEBC commissioners,” it added.
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