The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioner, Abdi Guliye, has detailed how Azimio la Umoja leaders and the National Security Advisory Council (NSAC) attempted to influence the outcome of the August 9 polls in hours leading to the announcement of William Ruto as president-elect.
In an affidavit filed at the Supreme Court on Saturday, August 27, Guliye expressed that Azimio Executive Director, Raphael Tuju, and former Busia Senator, Amos Wako, offered gifts to IEBC chairperson, Wanyonyi Wafula Chebukati, and the commissioners if they moderated the results in favour of Raila Odinga.
Guliye documented that the duo and a third party, Kyalo Mbobu visited Chebukati at 3am on the day the results were to be announced.
He added that the team explained that there was a need to moderate the results for the sake of the country’s peace and stability.
Guliye added that Wako, a former Attorney General, confessed to having moderated election results in the past to favour the ruling government. Wako, according to Guliye, expressed that moderation would favour the country as a Ruto presidency would have plunged the country into chaos.
“Wako indicated that they had come to ask the Commission not to operate ‘in a vacuum’, and that it must consider the link between the election results to be declared and the stability of the country, which he described as the bigger picture,” affidavit reads.
