Four embattled IEBC Commissioners met senior top leaders of the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Alliance at a Nairobi hotel immediately after they issued statements disowning the results of the August 9, presidential elections, it has now emerged.
Evidence presented before the tribunal set to put the four officers on trial has alleged that there were numerous meetings between the IEBC Four and Azimio's top leadership.
The Four Juliana Cherera, Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyang'aya and Irene Masit are set to face a tribunal probing them over four petitions facing them regarding their conduct in the August 9, polls.
Cherera has already resigned as the IEBC Vice Chair while Wanderi, and Nyang'ya have quit as IEBC commissioners. Masit is yet to quit and will be facing the tribunal to defend her innocence.
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But even as the four have a date with the tribunal, details indicate that they were booked at Yaya Hotel in Kilimani Nairobi on August 15, 20223, the very day they termed Iebc chair Wafula Chebukati's results as "Opaque".
"At 8:36 pm on August 15, four guests accompanied by their bodyguards and other individuals arrived and checked in," a report by NTV disclosed.
The report by NTV further indicates that the IEBC officials were booked in as tenants after they refused to provide their personal details.
It is there that they stayed for some time. Their accommodation and other Hotel expenses were fully paid by an Azimio politician affiliated with the ODM leader Raila Odinga.
While there, top Azimio leaders visited at different times to meet the commissioners for an agenda that is yet to be established.
Among the top officials who visited the hotel according to the evidence is the Azimio Executive Director Raphael Tuju and Kanu secretary general Nick Salat.
Tuju is said to have made regular visits to the hotel where they held talks with the commissioners.
Tuju was among the politicians who IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati and Commissioners Abdi Guliye and Boya Molu accused of being among the leaders who visited them and sought to have the results altered to have Raila declared the winner.
They also accused the two to alter the results to have a run-off in the event it was difficult to declare Raila the winner.
