NASA luminaries at a past function (Photo/courtesy)
National Super Alliance (NASA) leaders walked into the Supreme Court in solidarity ahead of the Presidential petition. NASA presidential candidate Raila Amolo Odinga was accompanied with Amani National Congress (ANC) Musalia Mudavadi, Wiper Party Leader Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and Ford Kenya Leader Moses Wetangula among others.
Chief Justice David Maraga, his deputy Philomena Mwilu, Judges Jackton Ojwang’, Mohammed Ibrahim, Smokin Wanjala, Njoki Ndung’u and Isaac Lenaola to came to a conclusion that the election was marred by election malpractices and ordered for a fresh election in the next 30 days.
This comes after Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ( IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati declared President Uhuru Kenyatta the winner of the last general election after he garnered 8,203,290 (54.27 per cent) votes against Mr Raila’s 6,762, 224 (44.74 per cent). Raila moved to court seeking to overturn the outcome of the August polls on the grounds that they were marred by election malpractices. Raila promised to unmask the rot in IEBC and Jubilee. “
“We will show how they shamelessly cooked results from non-existent polling stations and fake un-gazetted Presiding and Returning officers. They gave figures from non-existent Forms 34A and 34B; they scrambled to manufacture such forms; switched vote numbers; and how they openly swindled to reach predetermined consistent vote numbers. They cooked numbers to the extent that vote tallies often surpassed registered voters in polling stations” he said, as quoted by Star.