Jubilee has written a 14-point letter to the electoral commission requesting information that will allow the party to file petitions challenging election results in the Mt Kenya region for governor, senator, woman representative, MP, and ward representative.
The party has stated that it will contest results in the counties of Tharaka Nithi, Meru, Laikipia, Nyeri, Kirinyaga, Embu, Murang’a, Kiambu, Nyandarua, Nairobi, and Nakuru.
The letter was provided to the media by Secretary-General Jeremiah Kioni, who claimed that Jubilee leaders, including its national leader, President Uhuru Kenyatta, are convinced that “our win in the Mt Kenya region was stolen.”
He stated that the party’s leaders had ordered a thorough audit of the August 9 election and that the party requires information from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in order to file petitions.
According to him, the party wrote to the IEBC, citing Article 35 of the Constitution and Section 4 of the Access to Information Act No. 31 of 2016.
Mr. Kioni, a land economist and lawyer, also stated that they are seeking information from the IEBC in order to protect the rights of the party and its members as outlined in Article 38 of the Constitution.
Mr. Kioni, 57, was defeated in his parliamentary seat in Ndaragwa by George Gachagua of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), which defeated Jubilee in Mt Kenya. He received 7,227 votes, compared to the winner’s 30,180.
Jubilee wants the IEBC to provide a complete, unedited soft copy of each polling station’s voter register used in the elections.
It also wants remote access to electronic devices used to transmit results to constituency tallying centers, smartphones used by all returning officers, and servers used at each constituency tallying center.
“We also need certified copies of the raw images of forms prepared at and obtained from all the polling stations before they were converted to pdf format,” the letter says in its fifth and sixth demands.
“We also want the static IP address of each Kenya Integrated Election Management System (Kiems) kit used at each of the polling stations.”
Jubilee, which only won two parliamentary seats in Mt Kenya – Mr Kwenya Thuku (Kinangop) and David Kiaraho (Ol Kalou) – also wants the IEBC to provide specific GPS locations of each Kiems kit and polling station used between August 5 and August 15.
It also wants a certified list of all Kiems kits’ unique device identifiers, such as the Media Access Control (MAC) address, International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers, and SIM cards and their numbers in the order in which they were obtained (used, unused, and/or deployed during the election).
Jubilee won 24 parliamentary seats out of a target of more than 70, one governor seat (Isiolo) out of a target of 16, two woman representative seats in Isiolo and Nyamira out of a target of 16, and three Senate seats out of a target of 16.
