After the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) disqualified Thirdway Alliance presidential aspirant Ekuru Aukot from the race to the State House , he vowed to move to court in protest of some of the requirements for presidential aspirants.

In his battle with the electoral commission, the aspirant has now asked that the academic credentials of all presidential aspirants be made public to back their candidature as per the commission's demands, with a special interest in Azimio One Kenya party leader Raila Odinga's documents who he claims is not eligible to hold the seat.

Aukot claims his own undergraduate, post graduate and doctorate degree certificates in law sailed through verification in 2017 during his first attempt at presidency, which raised the question of why they rejected in this year's clearance exercise, as IEBC claimed that they had not been stamped by the universities that he received them from, yet he had provided the same in 2017.

He then took on Odinga's certification, claiming that it is in  public knowledge that that he is not a degree holder but holds a welding specialization diploma from a technical college in Germany, which would consequently expunge him from the list of contenders.

"Let him publish the degree certificates of all presidential candidates. One thing I know for sure that someone like Raila Odinga does not even have a degree certificate," Aukot stated in a radio interview addressing IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati.

"There is no record that he has a degree certificate, a diploma for welding is a not degree certificate," he added.

Among other contentious issues that led to his disqualification include his failure to provide signatures and copies of national identity cards of 48,000 registered voters from the 24 requisite counties who endorsed his presidential bid.

He found the requirement impractical stating that he deliberately chose not to ask for the photocopies of the IDs as it poses a risk to the privacy of thousands of voters who would have shared their personal information.

“No Kenyan is willing to give you his ID card to photocopy, let us be realistic. I’m even wondering where the cleared candidates got the photocopied ID cards of Kenyans from. People are being scammed through SIM swaps," he argued stating that the requirement was not in the constitution. 

Aukot also faulted the IEBC for failing to accept his banker's cheque of the required Kshs 200,000 nomination fees claiming it was not properly addressed.

"The cheque is addressed to the IEBC, they have not even presented it to the bank , and the bank has not even stated that it cannot honour the cheque, and proceeded to disqualify me," he added.