IEBC Commissioner Abdi Guliye has claimed the National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) had allegedly warned IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati not to declare William Ruto as president-elect.
Commissioner Abdi Guliye claims in an affidavit that the security committee was led by the Principal Administrate Secretary in the office of President Kennedy Kihara, Solicitor General Kennedy Ogeto, Inspector General Hillary Mutyambai, and Vice Chief of Defence Forces Lieutenant General Francis Omondi Ogola.
Guliye claims that at 2 p.m., an hour before Chebukati announced the results, Deputy Inspector General of Police Noor Gabow went to the holding room and informed him that an NSAC team had arrived at the tallying center and wanted to meet with Chebukati.
Chebukati was busy at the time, but he said he’d meet with the commissioners at 2 p.m. to discuss the final results and listen to the visiting team.
Kihara told the meeting that if the commission declared Ruto the president-elect, “the country will burn.”
According to Guliye, Kihara went on to say that clashes between the Kikuyu and Luo communities had already begun in several slums, including Kibera and Mathare, over alleged betrayal by Kikuyus
“Kihara went on to warn us that if we proceeded with the declaration of the results with Ruto as the president-elect and chaos ensued, ‘then the blood of the dead Kenyans’ would be on our hands,” Guliye said.
The second message from the NSAC delegation was that if Raila cannot be declared the outright winner, a run-off must be held.
After Kihara finished speaking, Chebukati invited us to share our thoughts. The four dissenting commissioners were the first to speak up, saying the message deserves serious consideration.
“On the other hand,” Guliye says, “I stated that the commission has a constitutional mandate to fulfill, and in declaring the results, it will be guided by the same constitution.”
Chebukati also stated that they had taken an oath of office requiring fidelity to the constitution.After the delegation left at 3 p.m., CEO Marjan Marjan walked in with the final results and handed a copy to all four commissioners, who protested and demanded that the results be changed in light of the NSAC delegation communication.
Masit and Wanderi believed that the results should be pushed back for a rerun, which they saw as a win-win situation.
Cherera then suggested that the margin isn’t too wide and that it could be manipulated by moving 233,211 votes from Ruto’s column to the rejected ballots column.
“After hearing from all of the commissioners, the chairman. “Indicated he would not discuss the subversion of the people’s will and would announce and declare the final results in accordance with the verified tallies,” according to the affidavit.
Guliye claims that the results of the 27 constituencies have already been verified in the presence of candidate agents and are included in the final tally in form 34C.
He also claims that at 3 a.m. on August 15, Raphael Tuju, former senator Amos Wako, and Advocate Kyalo Mbobu paid a visit to IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati.
Tuju told Chebukati at the meeting that the results needed to be skewed in favor of Baba and that any contrary declaration of results would throw the country into chaos.”He proposed that if ‘baba’ could not be declared president-elect, the commission force a run-off.”
Senator Wako stated that they had come to request that the commission not operate in a vacuum and that it consider the link between the election results to be declared and the country’s stability, which he described as the bigger picture.
According to Guliye, Wako went on to say that during his tenure as attorney general, he also served as election supervisor, and that in that capacity, he would moderate results in order to achieve law and stability in the country.”After hearing Tuju and Wako’s sentiments, the chairperson invited the commissioners to comment.” Commissioners Cherera, Nyang’aya, Masit, and Wanderi agreed with Wako and Tuju.”
Guliye, on the other hand, did not agree with what was going on, claiming
