DP William Ruto. [Photo/Nation]
Deputy President William Ruto has said the full Supreme Court ruling, left Kenyans with more questions than answers.
Ruto said the judges who had all the documents did not go through them to check the facts.
“The court said yesterday they had no problem with numbers: you won fair and square. If numbers had no problem, even these forms which were said [to have] had no serial, signature and rubber stamp were okay, then why annul the Presidential election?” asked the Deputy President.
The deputy president added that to claim that a voter’s decision had to be qualified by the Judiciary before it counted was to give way to judicial tyranny.
Ruto was addressing a delegation of leaders of pastoral communities from eight counties: Garissa, Isiolo, Kajiado, Marsabit, Mandera, Narok, Samburu, and Wajir.
Aden Duale, leader of the Jubilee majority in Parliament, maintained that the ruling was laced with misguided politics: the opposition, he said, had misled themselves and the country by forgetting that the President’s term continued until another was sworn in.
“Article 142 (1) says the President shall hold office for a term beginning on the date on which the President was sworn in, and ending when the person next elected President in accordance with article 136 (2) (a) is sworn in” said the leader of Majority.
The Supreme Court nullified Uhuru’s re-election, saying IEBC did not follow the constitution and elections act during the polls.
IEBC has now set October 26 as the date for the fresh presidential election.