Chief Justice David Maraga [Photo/citizen digital]The President of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice David Maraga has been asked to bar High Court Judge Weldon Korir from hearing a petition filed by former Labour CS Kazungu Kambi to challenging the reelection of Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi.Through his lawyers Ben Mosota and Aoko Otieno, Kingi made an application claiming the Judge was favoring the petitioner and that he was incapable of being fair and nonpartisan.In the eight-page application, the Governor stated that Korir had issued two rulings allowing Kambi to deposit the security of the petition without making an oral or formal application.Kingi argued that the Judge's decision to extend time to deposit security contravenes article 87 of the Constitution, section 78 of the Elections Act and rule 13 of the Election Petition rules."The judge predicted the two rulings to save the petition from being struck out as per law," Kingi stated.Mr. Kambi, in his petition, claimed he had concrete evidence indicating that Kingi came a distant third with 46,781 votes.The former CS argued that during the tallying, he wrote a complaint letter to the Kilifi Returning Officer but she did not receive it.Mr. Kingi who vied on an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party ticket garnered 280,686 votes against Kambi’s 44,470.

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