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Raila Odinga defies IEBC as Uhuru Kenyatta complies with campaign financing rule

Opposition leader Raila Odinga’s ODM party Friday said it will not engage the IEBC until new commissioners assume office and advised its members to ignore “this ill-advised deadline”. (Photo: Jenipher Wachie/Standard)

The Opposition is once again on a warpath with the electoral commission over poll regulations. CORD and Amani National Congress have protested against the campaign financing rules, whose extended deadline lapsed last night.

Hundreds of aspirants Friday jammed the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) offices to provide details of their campaign fund accounts, including names of chairman, secretary and treasurer of the candidates’ campaign committee who will be account signatories.

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