President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election upheld by the Supreme Court unanimously.
SUPREME COURT dismissed 2 consolidated petitions against Uhuru Kenyatta re-election;validates October 26 repeat election.
The bench in a oneness of mind, found that the two separate petitions, that of Harun Mwau and that of Khelef Khalifa and Njonjo Mwau, failed to show that the poll was so fundamentally flawed to warrant a nullification.
Chief Justice David Maraga in the course of submissions, faulted Mue and Khalifa’s lead counsel Harun Ndubi for failing to include in their application for scrutiny, a prayer to file a report on the same.
Ndubi having complained that unlike in the Raila Odinga petition, the scrutiny process was not presided over by court officer who would later submit a report to the court.
When they granted a limited scrutiny order, the bench in unison, also faulted the lack of specificity in the phrasing of the prayers.
With the Supreme Court of Kenya having upheld the re-election of Uhuru Kenyatta on 26th October 2017, President Uhuru is set to be sworn in on 28th of November 2017.