Follow the law in picking new IEBC team, says Ekuru Aukot

Thirdway Alliance Kenya party leader Ekuru Aukot during a press conference on August 24, 2016. Dr Aukot has urged team picking new IEBC commisssioners to follow the law. PHOTO | MARTIN MUKANGU | NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

  • The former Secretary of the Committee of Experts on the Constitution said his party was an issue-based party that will steer clear of tribal politics.

  • He promised to usher in transformative leadership that has been missing for the last 53 years.

Thirdway Alliance Kenya Party leader Dr Ekuru Aukot has called for the law to be followed in reconstituting the electoral commission.

“Let us reconstitute the electoral commission, but I hope we follow the law. It is the way we let our political parties dictate who is to going to manage our elections that ended up giving us such problems,” said Dr Aukot.

He also urged Kenyans to embrace a generation of new leaders who do not have political or tribal baggage.

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Speaking on Wednesday at the Registrar of Political Parties offices where he went to pick up his party’s certificate, the former Secretary of the Committee of Experts on the Constitution said his party was an issue-based party that will steer clear of tribal politics.

He added that his party is set on taking Kenya back from corruption, negative ethnicity and marching towards effective implementation of the Constitution which has been mutilated by the current leadership and provide an alternative to the current dysfunctional two-party system.

He promised to usher in transformative leadership that has been missing for the last 53 years.