A controversial letter allegedly from the ruling party Jubilee that was released on Monday evening has continued to raise more questions than answers.
The letter which bore the names of Jubilee candidates interested in Kibra by-elections which letter dismissed by the party’s secretary general Raphael Tuju as fake.
However, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission confirmed having received the letter but got concerned about the letter’s dismissal by the party.
IEBC said it had learnt that Jubilee had disowned the letter sent to the commission on August 26.
“It has come to the attention of the Commission that Jubilee Party has denied authoring the said letter and termed it as fake,” said IEBC adding that it had written to the party forwarding a copy of the letter “for the party’s information and further action.”
The names of the candidates in the alleged fake letter are soccer star McDonald Mariga, Morris Peter Kinyanjui, Walter Trenk, Said Ibrahim and Doreen Wasike.
According to an exclusive report by The Standard, Deputy President William Ruto’s camp which favours Mr Mariga’s candidature – sensationally claimed that their rivals in the ruling party, led by Tuju, had hatched a plot to field a weak candidate for the Kibra election in order to help opposition leader Raila Odinga’s ODM candidate win.
The Mariga candidature has caused a debate, with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s wing of the party insisting that it was in charge of party affairs even as it accused Ruto’s side of pushing for Mariga’s candidature through a fake list of candidates published on Monday evening to hoodwink the electorate.
Jubilee’s candidate is expected to face off with Raila’s ODM candidate in the upcoming November 7, 2019 by-elections.
ODM will hold its nominations on Saturday 31st to get the party’s flag bearer in the mini polls.
The Kibra MP seat fell vacant following the demise of Ken Okoth who succumbed to cancer in July.
