President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto on Thursday claimed that the National Super Alliance (NASA) was plotting to postpone the General Election to December.
Speaking in Kericho on the campaign trail, President Kenyatta stated that NASA had sensed defeat and had calculated a plot to postpone the elections that were to be held this August.
Kenyatta claimed that the current onslaught by NASA on the ballot printing process was part of the wider scheme by the Opposition to derail the August 8 polls.
"For long my deputy and I have yielded to numerous demands by the opposition on how the electoral body should be reformed.
They called for the disbandment of the IEBC, we gave in. They then went to court over the Biometric Voter Register (BVR), we never opposed and now they have fresh demands on the printing of ballot papers, which we are ready to let them decide on who will print them," the President added.
He said that NASA was desperate and was trying to get into government through the back door, just as they did during the Grand Coalition government.
"NASA leaders are trying to force Kenyans to allow them to join the Government through the back door just as they did during the Grand Coalition government whereby they forced retired President Mwai Kibaki to share power with them," said Kenyatta.
The president added that they would not relent and would stick to the set date that had been outlined in the Constitution, the second week of August.
NASA principal Raila Odinga and his team have constantly maintained that IEBC irregularly awarded Al Ghurair Printing and Publishing company the tender to print about 120 million ballot papers.
Odinga stated that his team was in possession of information showing that the Dubai-based firm has had contracts with senior Jubilee officials for at least three years.
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