Political analyst Kamotho Waiganjo in a past event.He has given this year's presidential petition a clean bill of health.[Photo/The Star]
Political analyst Kamotho Waiganjo has given this year's Presidential petition pitting the petitioner NASA alliance and the national poll body IEBC a clean bill of health as compared to a similar situation after the 2013 general polls.
Speaking on Citizen TV Monday, Waiganjo said that the opposition's legal team has this time round put time into consideration and acted in line with it as opposed to 2013 where some of the evidence was delivered out of time.
''This time round the lawyers have acted in line with the set guidelines hence the bulky evidence presented by all parties and this will ensure that only a fair verdict comes out,'' said Kamotho who also applauded the bench saying that it has acted in a very mature manner.
''The judges have approached this matter with sobriety and allowed for all substantive evidence to be presented even some that were considered untimely basing on their importance to the case.This again is a step further as compared to the last case,'' he said.
Kamotho as well hailed the court for running the entire process under clearly spelt out and well-coordinated schedule saying that the same will help in ensuring that every party gets the opportunity to present it's case in the most comfortable way and rule out any possibilities of oppression.
In the petition, NASA through its lawyers is seeking for the nullification of President Kenyatta's victory in the just concluded August 8 general polls saying that the process was marred with cases of irregularities.
The 7-judge bench headed by Chief Justice David Maraga and his deputy Philomena Mwilu is expected to give a ruling upon the completion of the case based on the evidence presented.