Raila Odinga's lawyers Otiende Amollo (left) and James Orengo converse at the Supreme Court on August 26, 2017 during the pre-trial conference on the presidential election petition. [Photo: nation.co.ke]The 1.4 million votes that President Uhuru Kenyatta defeated Nasa presidential candidate Raila Odinga with during the August 8 presidential poll shouldn't be taken into consideration in the determination of Raila's petition.One of Raila's lawyers in the Supreme Court petition Okong’o Omogeni, argued that there was an improper influence, intimidation and corruption on the part of the President and, therefore, looking at the numbers alone was not important.Omogeni pointed out what he said were breaches of the Constitution and electoral laws by President Kenyatta and three Cabinet secretaries during the campaign period."On this area, you don’t need to look at numbers. If the Constitution was violated, if the laws were violated, you don’t have to look at who has a massive lead. It’s not about numbers. It’s whether the laws governing the elections and the Constitution have been followed," Omogeni said on Monday during the petition hearing as quoted by the Nation.He added: “If on a balance of probability the petitioner can demonstrate that the Constitution and the laws governing the elections were violated, this court should void the results of these elections.Omogeni and other Nasa lawyers, in their five-hour presentation to the seven Supreme Court judges, cited irregularities that they said marred the election and asked the Supreme Court to nullify Uhuru's victory.The lawyers said the compilation of the results was flawed and some results were fabricated. They also faulted the manner in which the provisional results were transmitted and the accuracy of the forms on which the final results were filled in.“Our submission is that once the contravention of the Constitution is proved, the matter ends there and the election is invalidated,” Paul Mwangi, another of Raila's lawyer submitted.

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