Jubilee Party will not send anybody to Dubai for the Al Ghurair ballot paper check, secretary general Raphael Tuju has said.
On Wednesday, IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati invited political parties to join his team to Dubai on June 22 to monitor ballot printing to allay rigging fears.
Chebukati announced that the commission resolved to invite stakeholders to accompany and monitor the production of the ballot papers.
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But Tujusaid IEBC is wasting its time by doing things that please Opposition leaders.
"We don't care who gets this contract. We will not take the offer by IEBC to do any inspection in Dubai. If NASA wants to boycott the elections let them boycott," Tuju said after a meeting with IEBC on Thursday.
"We cannot have a situation where NASA makes false claims then the IEBC catches a cold and does everything to appease them, handing them tickets like sweets."
Tuju said the electoral agency is running around instead of preparing for the August 8 general election.
"NASA will always complain [about] something. Each of them calculated to derail the elections...they talk too much," he said. "We are very disappointed with IEBC...that when NASA says something they run around like headless chicken."
He said the Jubilee Party's mandate is not to instill confidence in the IEBC but to concentrate on more important issues.
Tuju further defended President Uhuru Kenyatta for meeting Majid Saif Al Ghurair, chair of Al Ghurair Printing and Publishing Company.
The Star exclusively reported that the prominent Al Ghurair family hosted Uhuru before a Sh2.5 billion tender to print IEBC ballot papers was awarded to the eponymous firm. The Star even attached a picture of the meeting.
But Tuju claimed on Thursday: "The person who met with the President just has a similar name as that of Azizi Al Ghurair. He is a different person."
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On Wednesday, Jubilee Party warned that calls for IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba and voter registrations officer Immaculate Kassait to step down will delay the polls.
This was in response to calls by NASA which wants the two to step down on allegations that hey have been compromised by Jubilee Party officials.
Tuju defended the officials saying that they are innocent.
Earlier on Wednesday, Chebukati said NASA's narrative was "dangerously derailing" them from fulfilling their constitutional obligation on the elections.
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