Supreme Court Receives Eight Petitions to Nullify President-elect Ruto’s Victory
Eight petitions were on Monday filed at the Supreme Court seeking to nullify president-elect William Ruto’s victory in the August 9th presidential election.
The petitioners want the election nullified and a fresh election conducted in accordance with the constitution and election laws.
They include Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya presidential candidate Raila Odinga, John Njoroge Kamau, Daniel Kariuki Ngari, Juliah Nyokabi, Khalef Khalifa, Busia senator-elect Okiya Omtatah, Youth Advocacy Africa and gospel singer Reuben Kigame.
Ruto was declared the winner of the August 9th presidential election after garnering 7,176,141, representing 50.49 percent of the total votes.
His main competitor Odinga secured 6,942,930 votes (48.85 percent), followed by Roots Party candidate George Wajackoyah (61,969 votes) and David Mwaure (31,987 votes).
Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua are seeking 23 reliefs among them an order for inspection of IEBC servers, and scrutiny of the rejected and spoilt votes.
They are further seeking an order for scrutiny and forensic audit of the Kenya Integrated Elections Management System (KIEMS) kits, IEBC portal, and the presidential election forms (forms 34A, 34B and 34C).
The two want the apex court to issue an order invalidating Ruto’s victory and compelling the electoral commission to organize a fresh presidential election in strict conformity with the Constitution and election laws. They say that IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati should not preside over the fresh election.
Omtatah in his petition wants the presidential elections quashed, arguing that none of the candidates who contested attained 50% plus one vote threshold as required by the constitution.
He argues that the tabulation of the presidential results by the IEBC was mathematically incorrect, claiming that there were at least 140,028 untallied votes.
On his part, Kigame who wanted to vie for the presidency but he was disqualified for failing to meet the threshold argues that the whole process leading up to the results as declared by IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati was marred by irregularities that rendered the final outcome null and void.
“The Petitioner’s dream together with that of other Independent aspirants in exercising their civil and political rights got into jeopardy due to the unreasonableness and discriminatory actions by the first respondent,” Kigame said.
Kigame contends that the electoral commission and Chebukati violated his political and human rights.
The Supreme Court has 14 days from Monday to hear the petition and deliver a verdict.
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Okiya Omtatah won a…
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Okiya Omtatah won a Senatorial seat? Now that is truly a man who promotes public value and kudos to him.
This Supreme Court needs…
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This Supreme Court needs some teeth in order to emancipate itself from abuse by corrupt politicians criminals and merchants of impunity!
It’s utterly preposterous!!!!
Ruto lost bigly. He stole…
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Ruto lost bigly. He stole millions of votes through compromising the IEBC Kiems and bribing the IEBC staff, security officers, etc.
The best thing is to nullify the election, recount the votes and declare Raila as the President elect.
Confirming Ruto will be allowing corruption and impunity to persist in Kenya. Ruto will destroy kenya if allowed to be the next president. He is unfit to lead Kenyans.
WAFULA CHEBUKATI: A FAILED…
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WAFULA CHEBUKATI: A FAILED LEADER OF THE IEBC
As long as Wafula Chebukati is in charge of the IEBC, what happened in 2017 and now will likely continue to take place. Is he indispensable?
Has Brother Chebukati read the new Constitution of Kenya Chapter 6? This section of the constitution makes it very clear that, potential candidates with closets full of skeletons are not eligible to run for any elective public office.
Brother Kidero run for the position of a governor of Homa Bay County after being involved in financial scandal/ embezzlement when he was the governor of the County of Nairobi. Why was he cleared to run for office in Homa Bay?
SOLUTION:
1. In future, all potential candidates should submit their names in advance for Clarence by the DCI and the DPP working together, before their names are sent to the misinformed public for a vote.
2. Elected members of parliament should be suspended immediately and not given a chance to serve the public if they commit murder. Brother Barasa is alleged of having killed a person who was in the company of his political opponent. He should not be given a chance to serve the people. He should be arrested immediately and given life imprisonment without parole. How come Brother Owino was allowed to run again after shooting and almost killing an innocent person in the past while both were having an alcoholic drink?
3. If any member of parliament is engaged in any fist fighting or use of inappropriate language, s/he should be suspended immediately. We need quality members of parliament who will set a good example for the current youth of Kenya.
4. Brother Chebukati has embarrassed the people of Kenya repeatedly and should be fired/suspended immediately without pay.
Tunataka video kilipu ya…
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In reply to WAFULA CHEBUKATI: A FAILED… by Imara Daima (not verified)
Tunataka video kilipu ya Chebukati akipatiwa hongo na Samoei ndio tuone kweli waliofanya kuiba votes ni ukweli
What happened to integrity…
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In reply to WAFULA CHEBUKATI: A FAILED… by Imara Daima (not verified)
What happened to integrity,and ethics tests our politicians,and public officials were supposed to pass in order to hold any public office?
As per new constitution of Kenya Chapter 6 as cited by@ Ndugu Imara Daima, the characters you mentioned would not be on any ballot. To me what is more disturbing in the audacity to run for public office when you know that the constitution bars you.Pretty much flouting the law with impunity.
Our politicians are fond of talking democracy,but not walking it. in USA to use one example, all those criminal characters your have mentioned in your comment@ Ngudu Imara,would not be on any ballot at best.At worst they would be in Jail,or prison.Can you Imagine how Americans would react to Judge who releases a first degree attempted murderer, literary from prison because he bought a house for the victim? What kind of precedent would this be setting?
Now the bigger question is,why do Kenyan public tolerate this flagrant abuse of law by our politicians,and other high-ups?They are the ones who should be making noise since the brunt of" evils " committed by politicians fall on them.
shame! SCoK please get to…
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shame! SCoK please get to work and stop this madness asap! this time hakuna kung'oa reli, hakuna kujiapisha, hakuna kurusha mawe na hakuna kupigana. Ms Koome we patiently waiting to hear from your crew and please make it fast so that some of us ready to go back to work do so and matharao time can continue whining and bi*ch'n
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