NASA principals Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, lawyer Amos Wako and James Orengo. [PHOTO/standardmedia.co.ke]
The NASA coalition are wasting their time in the corridors of the Supreme Court of Kenya over the presidential elections.
This is according to the Jubilee Party.
Jubilee have vowed to floor NASA in court just as they did in 2013 when Raila Odinga's petition against President Uhuru Kenyatta's win was thrown away for lack of evidence.
The ruling party has further termed the petition filed by NASA as weak, inconsistent and incapable of constitutionally overturning President Kenyatta's election.
According to Tharaka Nithi Senator-elect Prof Kithure Kindiki, NASA has not made any serious case that can lead to the nullification of the elections despite filing volumes of paper work before the court.
"I have gone through that petition, paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence and word for word from last evening, and as a lawyer, I am shocked. This is the weakest petition I have come across filed in any court across the world, trying to contest the election of a president," Kindiki said as reported by the Standard.
On his part, senior counsel Ahamednassir Abdullahi confirmed he met his Jubilee defense colleague Fred Ngatia Friday night to take a preliminary look at the petition that they found on social media. He said NASA have no case.
He said it lacks definition and does not offer any legal grievance.
Abdullahi termed it "unfortunately a waste of time, meant to give false hope to Raila and his supporters".
"We do not wish to litigate the matter through the media, but our preliminary finding is that this petition is addressed to Raila's political constituency and is meant to give false hope that the Supreme Court will give Raila what the Kenyan voter denied him on August 8,” he said
"The main thing that Raila complained about in his claim of electoral malpractice was the hacking of IEBC systems. But in his petition, he has completely abandoned this theory and is now telling us of some votes that were not added here and others that were subtracted there. It's such an underwhelming petition."
Kindiki has now said the petition does not have any characteristics of a serious presidential petition.
"In a presidential petition, one would expect that in the basic reading of what is filed, even without supporting it with further evidence, the court can identify the key element of the supposed electoral fraud. Unfortunately, what they have given us are stories and rumours," said Kindiki.
Elgeyo Marakwet senator-elect Kipchumba Murkomen termed the petition 'a fishing expedition'.
"This is a hopeless petition. They have always told us that the systems were hacked and that is how rigging occurred, but when you read the petition, there is nothing on this," said Murkomen.
"The Supreme Court has no redemption to make. NASA must stop these acts of intimidation," he added.
Garissa Township MP-elect Aden Duale was also reading from the same script, terming the petition as hollow.
"They claimed to have 25,000 pages of evidence, revised the same to 9,000 pages, but only came up with 4,000 pages," he said.