Political parties have been warned against ignoring orders to repeat primaries.
Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has said that it is against the law to ignore the order as directed by Political Parties Disputes Tribunal.
“We did not cause the mess. The mess was caused by parties themselves in the way they conducted their primaries. They brought such number of cases that as at last night, I allocated to judges nine cases of primaries,” she said.
She was speaking at the annual judges colloquium in Mombasa.
The DCJ warned of dire consequence for all political parties ignoring the court orders.
“Please leave us to do our work and we are doing our part. Since we are in any event ready to hear these cases and confidence of Kenyans will be based on how we continue to deliver on a daily basis, I myself think I stand in a better position than we did on 2013,” she said.
Mwilu further indicated that candidates with disputed cases resulting from the shoddy party nomination must be on the ballot papers.
“If these primaries were properly conducted by the political parties, why anyone would be coming to us to resolve their disputes?” she posed.