President William Ruto has claimed IEBC senior staff were offered financial rewards to announce ODM Leader Raila Odinga as the winner of the August 9 presidential poll.
Ruto said IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati, CEO Hussein Marjan Abdi, and commissioners Yakub Guliye and Boya Molu were given the 'rewards' to cooperate with the "agents of impunity".
"We now know that Chairman Wafula Chebukati, commissioners Abdi Yakub Guliye and Boya Molu as well as the CEO, Hussein Marjan, and their staff, were offered stupendous financial rewards to cooperate with the agents of impunity, but they bravely resisted," he said.
He was speaking during a meeting with chairpersons and Commissioners of Independent offices and Commissions.
The President also alleged the four were subsequently threatened with dire consequences for them and their families.
"We also know that they were subsequently threatened with dire consequences for them and their families if they did not do the ‘system’s bidding and overturn the choice of Kenyans. Again, we know that they stood strong and firmly said “NO!” he said.
Ruto said he salutes with great admiration the steadfastness, integrity and leadership through the example that Chebukati provided at the IEBC.
"Through Wafula Chebukati, we have seen what integrity looks like at work. We have witnessed him lead an organisation in learning from its mistakes and doing better each succeeding time. We have seen him refine the art and science of delivering elections," he said.
Guliye had on Monday revealed that he went into hiding for three days following the drama that unfolded in Bomas of Kenya in August 2022.
Speaking during the launch of the 2022 post-election evaluation report at Safari Park in Nairobi, Guliye said he was with the commission's CEO Marjan Marjan and Commissioner Boya Molu at an unknown location.
"After the Bomas announcement of the presidential results, I recall going into Siberia in my own county together with CEO Marjan and commissioner Molu, we went into hiding, put off our phones and left them at Bomas," he said.
The commissioner said they had to send away their security, left Bomas and rode in a Toyota Noah.
"We rode in a Noah, to an unknown location," he said.