President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party has been handed a major boost in their quest to have free and fair nominations after IEBC chairman Wafula Chebuakti announced that they would help them conduct party primaries.
Chebukati made the statement on Friday after he led a delegation to meet Jubilee leaders at Pangani in Nairobi to address the challenges facing the electoral body over the voter registration exercise.
Speaking on the latest development, head of Jubilee secretariat Raphael Tuju said that they had reached a consensus to pick a team of six to agree on how the commission will conduct the party nominations.
"We have agreed that IEBC will give three officers and three from us to look for a common ground on how the nominations will be conducted and then they can give us recommendations on the way forward," Tuju stated.
Chebukati said the electoral body would engage all stakeholders to ensure a free and fair General Election.
"We have received a memorandum from Jubilee and discussed the register issue, we will send in a team to work out on the guidelines of how party nominations will be conducted," he said.
On Saturday, Mr Chebukati had stated that IEBC would not conduct party primaries pointing out that the electoral body lacked enough capacity.
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