The National Super Alliance (NASA) has been dealt a major blow after the IEBC declined some of the demands they set before participating in the October poll.
Details have emerged indicating that at least five conditions the Opposition highlighted in their 'irreducible minimum' have since been overtaken by events and can no longer be negotiated.
Some of those demands NASA had insisted that they would not backtrack on include; The firing of printing firm Al Ghurair, the dismissal of electoral kits manufacturer OT-Morpho, firing of 12 IEBC officials, dropping of the new elections amendment laws by Jubilee and hiring of new Returning officers across all the 290 constituencies.
The Standard, however, reports that IEBC has already placed an order with Al Ghurair for printing presidential ballot papers and similarly inked an agreement with OT-Morpho that will provide technology for purposes of the presidential elections.
Regarding the firing of the 12 IEBC officials, the Commission has declined the demand noting that the Supreme Court did not find any of their staff culpable and as such no one will be fired.
Jubilee party on their part declined to drop the amendments with President Uhuru Kenyatta insisting that the proposed amendments to the election laws will not be dropped and procedures for adoption of the same is ongoing in Parliament.
The Commission has, however, accepted some demands which include; beefing up of the ICT framework with close supervision of the agents and the IEBC to prevent anomalies experienced previously and providing a list of all polling stations together with their GPRS coordinates.
The Opposition has, however, insisted that their 'irreducible minimums' must be met before they participate in a new poll.
Addressing NASA supporters in Vihiga on Saturday, Opposition Leader Raila Odinga insisted that the coalition would not participate in the polls until all the demands were met.
On Thursday, Mr Odinga announced that they will hold demonstrations on Monday and Friday until their demands are met.
