Cord has softened its rejection of President Uhuru Kenyatta's initiative to end the dispute over the IEBC. He said the coalition is "only opposed to the unorthodox games the Presidency and Jubilee in general are trying to apply". Jubilee 'propaganda' and the numbers issueODM Communications director Philip Etale said Cord has not opposed dialogue as "Jubilee people are trying to propagate". But the opposition has dismissed the idea of seeking changes to the IEBC via Parliament, a body dominated by Uhuru's Jubilee coalition and which previously rejected an opposition petition against the IEBC. Uhuru met Jubilee lawmakers to draw up a list of names from his coalition for a bipartisan committee.

Source: The Star June 09, 2016 12:45 UTC