Raila Odinga has given an account of how the 2013 general election was allegedly rigged, saying commissioners called him and made a confession.
The Cord leader further said anomalies were noticed in records the electoral commission submitted following a court order.
He said on Friday that
experts from South Africa and the US, who subjected the records to further analysis, indicated votes were 'stolen' during the March 4 poll.
"Lawyers and experts, two were from south Africa and two from the United States, looked at the records and said if the election was in the US, some people would have to go to jail," he said.
Raila told the Law Society of Kenya annual conference in Diani, Kwale county, that they have 900 pages of evidence of the rigging.
"We did an analysis of the results in London. It showed something very interesting," he said noting 10 million people voted for MCAs, MPs, woman representatives, senators and governors each.
"But 12 million people voted for the presidency," he said, terming this the anomaly they talked about when the electoral body released the poll results.
"It means two million people went to the booth and voted for the President and nobody else. That is the anomaly," he said.
"The two million ballot papers were printed then flown on KQ and handed to so and so."
Raila said the IEBC commissioners who called him said the ballot papers were then taken to different places before they reached Kenyatta University.
He said the electoral commission cannot refute this.
"They were going to be put into the system but the computer rejected them. That is when they crashed the server," he said adding they then introduced them into the system legally.
"That is what I say is like a military coup," he said.
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Opposition leaders have been championing the removal of IEBC bosses saying the 2013 election showed they lack the capacity to handle the 2017 general eelction.
Cord co-principals Raila Odinga, Moses Wetang'ula and Kalonzo Musyoka had been holding demonstrations over this before dialogue was agreed to and a to handle reforms.
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The committee handed its report to President Uhuru Kenyatta last week. It included the resolve for the current set of commissioners to resign and new ones to be hired.
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On June 28, 2016, a
petitioner demanded the
staff for incompetence in the 2013 general election.
Nyukuri Barasa said the public had lost trust in IEBC commissioners after they admitted to challenges in the transmission of results.
IEBC staff defended as above board the kits given to Burundi during elections.
The 2013 election, in which President Uhuru emerged winner, was marred by technical issues that delayed results.
The electronic voter transmission system set up and managed by the IEBC crashed earlier on election day. Claims emergedof sabotage
as a way of rigging the election.
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