Raila’s spokesperson proposes split of IEBC as he affirms they don’t recognize Ruto as president-elect
Raila’s spokesperson Makau Mutua has proposed split of IEBC into 47 electoral units to enhance transparency.
Raila Odinga’s presidential campaign spokesperson Makau Mutua has called for the devolution of electoral functions to counties.
On Thursday, August 18, Mutua claimed on Spice FM that the country’s election mismanagement was a result of the current system, in which the national officials of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) have broad authority.
He claims that because of the complexity of our electoral procedures, county-level elections are more in the hands of IEBC commissioners.
“This complicating factor of a national electoral body is perhaps something we need to look at. To ask ourselves, should we continue to have a national electoral body or should we break it up into 47 different bodies?” Mutua posed.
Raila’s spokesperson gave an example of the electoral system in the USA where state officers have the final say in elections of that particular state.
“In other countries like the United States, there is nothing like a national elections body. Elections are state matters, in that case, what is decided at the state level is final, there is no overreaching body that decides that so and so has been elected in that particular state,” he stated.”
Makau Mutua also affirmed that they do not recognize William Ruto as the president-elect.
“As far as we are concerned there is no valid or legally declared winner of the election. There is no president-elect, perish that thought. We do not recognize that at all,” Makau said.
He said Azimio will take legal steps to confirm their victory as he called on Azimio supporters to stay calm and firm as the coalition is undertaking legal processes.
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