Azimio la Umoja executive director Raphael Tuju has admitted that he met Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Wafula Chebukati in the morning of the day presidential results were announced.

Tuju says that he met with Chebukati at 4am and not 3am as an affidavit by IEBC Commissioner Abdi Guliye has said.

Tuju made this admission through a press briefing which he termed as his response to the affidavit.

“I’d like to start by admitting that I was at Bomas of Kenya several times and the meeting which they say took place at 3 O’clock happened at 4am,” he said.

Tuju alleged that he had gone to ask Chebukati to address the issue of Forms 34As that were allegedly being swapped.

“The issue had brought up with him (Guliye) was that I had received intelligence from one of the IEBC officials, who complained that some form 34As were being brought down and they were being replaced by other form 34As,” he said.

In his affidavit to the Supreme Court, Commissioner Guliye has accused Tuju and former Attorney General Amos Wako of visiting Bomas at night in a bid to force Chebukati to change presidential results in favour of former prime minister Raila Odinga.

In the results that were declared by Chebukati, Raila lost to Dr. William Ruto who managed the legally required score of 50.49 per cent.

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In his press briefing on Sunday, Tuju further alleged that on the said morning, Chebukati had directed a senior police officer, Samuel Arap Kimeu to not let him in.

“He actually physically blocked me from trying to trying to get into IEBC proceedings at Bomas of Kenya that day,” he said, and claimed that he used the back door to get in.