Mudavadi dismisses survey as fraud meant to rig 2017 election

ANC Party leader Musalia Mudavadi Sunday dismissed the Infotrack opinion poll that indicated less than one per cent back his presidential bid.

He termed it a fraud or a pre-April Fool's Day hoax.

Mr Mudavadi said Infotrack had embarked on the same prank it unsuccessfully used in the run-up to 2013 to prop up certain candidates.

"The fact that such sneaky polls are conducted to hoodwink Kenyans into despair is not new. They did it in 2007 and 2013 when their preferred candidates were whitewashed," he said.

The ANC leader said although he avoided commenting on presidential candidates' ratings, he had noted that the pollsters had morphed into businesses out to manipulate people's democratic rights to choose by creating despondency towards some candidates.

"The ultimate aim is to create despair and apathy among supporters of given candidates. The worst aspect of engineered polls is to create a state of siege which easily translates into violent electoral contests," said Mudavadi.

He noted the same plot was on the cards in the current Infotrack poll and the aim was to create apathy among select Kenyans and said he would release a comprehensive statement today.

"It is time Kenyans called a bluff and rein in pollsters out to undermine the electoral process," said Mudavadi.

Mudavadi said not long ago, Infotrack had a poll that said a majority of Kenyans were disgruntled against Jubilee.

"What has changed in a space of weeks? It is time to probe the personal and financial relationship between pollsters and competitors in an election," said Mudavadi.