IEBC's Tweet Denying Convening a Crisis Meeting Sparks Massive Reactions Online

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) found itself on the receiving end of an attack by Kenyans online after it dismissed claims that its Commissioners had a crisis meeting on Saturday.

"For the records, we have not had any scuffles or crisis meetings as reported. All is well, save for the fake news," IEBC stated through a tweet on Sunday.

It had been reported by a local daily that IEBC senior officials met on Saturday to discuss the electoral body's next move after the Supreme Court ruling nullifying the presidential results. 

Daily Nation reported that IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba left the meeting in a huff a short while after arriving in unclear circumstances.

Mr Chiloba was also distinctively absent from the Friday meeting convened by Chairman Wafula Chabukati and attended by commissioners Roselyn Akombe, Prof Yakub Guliye and Ms Margaret Mwachanya.

On Thursday, a disagreement between an IEBC commissioner and a senior secretariat official is reported to have turned physical at a recent meeting.

According to the local daily, a commissioner demanded to know how his login credentials had been used to access the election results database as revealed by the server audit ordered by the Supreme Court.

Kenyans on twitter pointed out that they did not trust the Electoral Commission and faulted them for not holding a crisis meeting to provide a way forward for the rerun election to be held within 60 days.