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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Mombasa ODM gubernatorial candidate Abdulswamad Nassir has said he will not attend the consultative meeting with IEBC officials scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n

The officials of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission are said to have summoned candidates from where the elections were postponed for a meeting.<\/p>\n

The meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday at Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi.<\/p>\n

Nassir will instead send his running mate Francis Thoya.<\/p>\n

“I have received a letter from the commission signed by Mombasa county returning officer Swalha Yusuf inviting me for the meeting,” said Nassir.<\/p>\n

Nasir said he suspected foul play since the meeting was to take place at Bomas of Kenya and not at the IEBC offices at Aniversary Towers.<\/p>\n

“We are also surprised IEBC offices are at Anniversary Towers, why the meeting was called at Bomas of Kenya, I don’t know and that is what we are saying that we don’t even know this word commission that is being used who it is in particular,” he said.<\/p>\n

Nassir said a commission as an entity has a registered office and Bomas is not the office.<\/p>\n

“We don’t know who we have been asked to meet there and these are issues that we cannot blindly accept.”<\/p>\n

He said going there is an acceptance that they are in agreement that the Mombasa election is a by-election of which it was part of the general elections that they bangled up.<\/p>\n

“Going there is an acceptance that they have leeway to choose dates how they please and that is taking us to the dark days,” he said.<\/p>\n

Nassir on Thursday said he is heading to court to seek orders compelling the IEBC to hold elections in the county not later than August 23.<\/p>\n

He claimed the IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati reached the decision unilaterally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to find out whether the commission had members voting when this decision was made,\u201d Nassir said.<\/p>\n

He said the IEBC did not reach out to the candidates too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no consultation. How do you take us? Is it because we are loyal to Azimio? The people of Mombasa deserve representation. It is their right,\u201d Nassir said.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the IEBC chair released a statement saying the elections scheduled for next Tuesday had been postponed indefinitely.<\/p>\n

The elections which were to be held during the general election on August 9 were pushed forward to August 23 after the commission realised a mistake in the ballot papers printed.<\/p>\n

The commission had also suspended elections for the Kakamega governor seat and four other parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n

Chebukati cited threats and harassment of his officials as reasons to postpone the elections for a second time.<\/p>\n

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