Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero will now testify at a tribunal investigating bribery claims against suspended Supreme Court Judge Philip Tunoi next week.
Making the ruling, the tribunal’s chairman Sharad Rao, said the Governor will be heard once the two officials of a mobile telecommunications company testify regarding the phone records that had been relied on to link him to the alleged graft.
Kidero is alleged to have accompanied Kiprop Chirchir to a petrol station on Waiyaki Way, where the money allegedly exchanged hands.
On Thursday, Rao said Kidero cannot testify until the phone records are availed.
Lead counsel Paul Nyamodi said Kidero would not serve its purpose without the phone records.
Kidero is accused of giving a Sh200 bribe to Justice Tunoi in exchange of a favourable ruling in his election petition against the current Kabete MP, Ferdinand Waititu.
Waititu was his main challenger in the 2013 elections.
Kidero has denied the allegations saying he has never had an encounter with the Justice Tunoi, apart from seeing him at the Supreme Court during the petition challenging his election.