| Updated Thu, July 13th 2017 at 08:25 GMT +3Former IEBC commissioner Thomas Letangule (Photo: Courtesy)A former electoral commissioner has lifted the lid on behind-the-scene actions that helped avert a constitutional crisis in the 2013 General Election. Legal advice from lawyer Paul Nyamodi led to IEBC throwing out of party agents. IEBC had reverted to manual tallying after the system collapsed amid protests from the opposition, which feared results could be manipulated. The stand-off threatened to derail the results announcement, which meant that if IEBC failed to beat the seven-day deadline, then Uhuru's election as president would be nullified. He continues: "We could tell that some people were unhappy and wanted the seven-day window period to close, so election results could be nullified.

Source: Standard Digital July 13, 2017 05:26 UTC