Raila Odinga's team pushes anti-IEBC demos to Thursday as Jubilee digs in

CORD co-principal Kalonzo Musyoka (second right) hugs the Rev Calisto Odede of Nairobi Baptist Church after a service Sunday. PHOTO: STANDARD

NAIROBI: The Opposition last evening bowed to political, diplomatic, business and religious pressure and called off the countrywide weekly protests in what their leaders said was to “give dialogue a chance”.

The CORD negotiators, who spent the whole weekend in meetings to cut a political deal on the fate of the electoral commission, said they had submitted a secret memo to the ruling Jubilee coalition with a set of demands that have to be met before the talks to begin.