Azimio to President Ruto: Leave the 4 IEBC commissioners alone

The fate of the four, Vice Chairperson Juliana Cherera, Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyang’aya and Irene Masit, is hanging in the balance after Farmers Party - that is associated with Ruto's Kenya Kwanza - petitioned parliament to dismiss them.

In a quick rebuttal, Azimio co-principal Kalonzo Musyoka cautioned President Ruto to refrain from hunting down the quartet, insisting that they should be left alone and they will firmly protect them from being ousted.

"We totally condemn this brazen act of witch hunt and demand that the President and his agents, leave those officers alone. On our part we commit to do whatever it takes to protect those officers from any attempts to infringe their basic rights," said Kalonzo on Saturday during an Azimio leaders meeting.

The four commissioners have been accused of being Azimio proxies, who had intents of sabotaging the outcome in the polls.

He similarly castigated the Head of State for removing the subsidy on maize, intimating that this was a clear example that Kenya Kwanza's Bottom-Up economic model won't be implemented by Ruto's administration despite it being popularised on the campaign trail.

"What a quick about turn when the ordinary Kenyan struggling to afford a meal a day, a government that can't feed our people has no business being in office," said Kalonzo.

"Why has the so-called Hustler narrative disappeared so soon? This is a mockery of the basic intelligence of the consumers and it must be seen for what it is."