Supreme Court judges. [Photo/judiciary.go.ke]
The Supreme Court will today, Tuesday, hold a pre-trial conference for the three presidential petitions that are challenging the legality of October 26 polls and validity of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election.
The pre-trial conference is intended to determine if all the parties have been served with the necessary filings, decide on the running order of oral submissions and possibly consolidate suits.
It is also at the pre-trial conference that the court will decide who among the applicants will be enjoined either as an interested party or friend of the court.
The court has seven days left to hear and determine the petition with the constitutional deadline lapsing at midnight next Monday.
The petitions before the court were filed by Njonjo Mue and Khelef Khalifa, Harun Mwau and the Institute for Democratic Governance.
Mue, Khalifa, and Mwau want the outcome of the October 26 fresh presidential poll invalidated while the Institute for Democratic Governance wants Opposition leaders Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka held in contempt and found guilty of electoral malpractices for actively seeking to derail the poll.