With the tension rising in the country over presidential results, IEBC has decided to break the ice by allowing pastors to preach at the Bomas of Kenya.
Pastors were given about 15 minutes to preach peace with the IEBC saying 'a country that prays together holds together'.
Even as this continued, choir from different denominations were tasked with singing in the background even as verification of forms 34a took place.
These are the forms that will seal the fate of the two presidential contenders Raila Odinga and William Ruto who are neck and neck in a race that saw about 14m voters going to the ballot on August 9 elections.
The choirs; Mzalendo singers, Muungano national choir and Mtakatifu kizito singers from Tanzania arrived at the tallying centre to entertain election officials and preach peace so they said.
One of the commissioners said the singers are there to instil confidence and spread peace to those who lost and even the winners.
Indeed in any election, losers somehow are always encouraged to try another time and why not through sermons and choir when the results are being read by the Independent electoral Boundaries Commission officials.
The Bomas of Kenya which is being used as the venue of the IEBC’s national tallying centre has become more of a Church event that has congregants, pastors and even the choir.
But these sermons come every time the commission is about to give an update over what is happening across all the electoral areas in the country.
But with Kenya and the world waiting for the outcome, mainstream media houses have been broadcasting differing results a move that has left many speechless.
Some have become "anxious and uneasy".With many stopping their daily activities to follow the race that is happening.
At the pace of the counting is ongoing, the results are likely to be out by today or the weekend.
If there is a clear leader of the race, celebrations are likely to break out.
However, only the electoral commission can declare a winner. IEBC has seven days after the election day to declare the result.
To win the presidential race in the first round, a candidate needs more than half of all the votes cast across the country and at least 25% of the votes cast in a minimum of 24 counties.
Otherwise voting goes to a second round which by law has to happen by September 8.
