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Defectors have 7-week window in IEBC’s poll timelines

Chairman of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Wafula Chebukati in his office in Nairobi. [PHOTO: FILE]

Politicians who are intending to switch parties ahead of the August 8 polls have one-and-a-half months to do so, or else be locked out of the August 8 General Election.

This is after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) published new election timelines for the nomination of candidates by political parties.

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