Tuju: Chebukati Organized a Secret Meeting with Me in Karen

Azimio la Umoja executive director Raphael Tuju has broken his silence about his secret meeting with IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati prior to the announcement of the presidential results on August 15th.

Chebukati filed an affidavit at the Supreme Court claiming that Tuju was among Azimio-allied leaders who paid him a visit at Bomas of Kenya at 3.00 am to try to convince him to alter the results of the election in favor of their candidate.

He claimed that Tuju and his team promised him handsome compensation if he accepted their request but he turned down the offer.

But in a media briefing on Sunday, Tuju said he sought an audience with Chebukati after getting intelligence reports on swapping of Forms 34A from the IEBC’s portal.

“I tried accessing the Chairman but was blocked by a senior police officer but after managing to access the facility through a back door, Chebukati refused to see me. He told me he was busy and I came back later, but kept on postponing. I waited until 4.00 am,” Tuju said.

He dismissed Chebukati’s claims that his team made him an offer to skew the results, stating that 10 other people including other IEBC commissioners were present at the meeting and can testify.

“In the meeting, we were ten of us in total and for him to claim that I made some offers to him it’s a tarradiddle. Petty lie. I want Chebukati to explain to Kenyans what we were discussing when he came to see me in a secret location in Karen,” said Tuju.

Tuju went on to claim that Chebukati called him for a meeting at a secret location in Karen without giving details of what they discussed.

“I want Chebukati to explain to Kenyans what the discussion was about when he came to a secret location to meet me in Karen,” he said.

In addition, Tuju said commissioners Abdi Guliye and Boya Molu, whom he described as “more of auctioneers than commissioners”, visited him at his Karen home 

“I want commissioners Guliye and Molu to tell Kenyans what they came to do in my house. I will make CCTV camera footage available,” he added.