Supreme Court judges. [Photo/ Miami Herald]
As the Supreme Court judges retreated to a secret location to make a decision on Raila Odinga’s petition challenging the declaration of Uhuru Kenyatta as president-elect, there is a judge who was very close to Jubilee Party senior officials, according to sources who spoke to Sunday Nation. On at least three occasions, a Cabinet Secretary in the Jubilee administration and two lawyers visited the judge’s house to promote ‘the government’s position’ in the petition that sought the nullification of the presidential election result. Unnamed sources, quoted by Nation, revealed that by Thursday afternoon, last week, the Supreme Court judges close to the Jubilee administration had leaked out information that the court was likely to nullify President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election. That made the Jubilee strategists to make efforts to change the mind of at least one of the judges in their favor. But it did not work, as the judges switched off their phones. That may have made National Assembly majority leader Aden Duale and his Senate counterpart Kipchumba Murkomen to skip appearing at the Supreme Court on Friday when the ruling was delivered. Since the ruling, Jubilee leaders — led by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto — have launched a campaign to criticize the judges.