The High Court will today make a ruling on a petition filed against Mandera Governor Ali Roba challenging his election.
The petition had been filed by former Mandera gubernatorial aspirant Hassan Noor who had moved to court seeking to nullify the governor’s election.
Mr. Noor claimed that the election was not conducted in accordance with the law as he seeks a nullification of Roba’s victory.
Mr. Noor told the court that 17 strangers were brought in as returning officers yet they had not been shortlisted adding that the ‘strangers' who were acting as returning officers were people well known to Mr. Roba.
He said that he alerted the voters about the 'strangers' who had been deployed as presiding officers by pinning a list of their names at every polling station.
Those who had been trained by IEBC to oversee the election as presiding officers were not posted to polling centers, he claimed.
He further claimed that presiding officers were deliberately delayed from reporting to their polling stations, the day before elections, to enable their replacement with the ‘strangers’.
Mr. Roba garnered 71,890 votes against 63,003 for Mr. Noor who wants the results annulled.
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