The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has rescheduled a meeting with political parties to discuss the thorny issue of timelines for presenting names for running mate and Deputy Governor positions.
The electoral commission postponed the meeting due to obligations arising from former President Mwai Kibaki’s death.
In a statement, commission Chair Wafula Chebukati said, “The commission hereby defers the meeting that it had invited you to attend (on April 25, 2022) to April 26, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.”
The goal of today’s meeting was to break the stalemate over when presidential and gubernatorial candidates are supposed to reveal their running mates and deputies.
The commission’s deadline for presidential flagbearers to name their deputies by April 28th is the point of departure between IEBC and Azimio la Umoja One Kenya.
Azimio la Umoja, one of Kenya’s secretaries, who had already arrived at the meeting, stated that despite the meeting’s postponement, they had discussions with the rest of the commissioners and had made progress so far.
Since presidential aspirants become candidates after the first week of June, Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya argues that the commission can only receive the names of the running mate after the aspirant officially becomes a candidate.
