Mandera governor Ali Roba.Photo/the-star.co.ke
The election of Mandera governor Ali Roba has been challenged in court.
Poll loser Hassan Noor Hassan has filed a petition on the grounds that there were election malpractices during the August polls.
The case was filed on Monday at the Milimani Law Courts.
According to Noor, ‘stranger’s well known to Roba of Jubilee Party were deployed as presiding officers to oversee the election.
It is Noor’s argument that results given to the said persons can not be relied upon.
“It is apparent that the posting of strangers was deliberate to facilitate the electoral vices that took place,” he claims.
The RO declared JP’s Roba the winner of the gubernatorial race after garnering 71,890 against the petitioner’s 63,003 of Economic Party Forum.
Noor is being represented by lawyer Tom Ojienda.