President Uhuru Kenyatta signs a bill into law in a past event.Lawyers are saying that recent electoral law reforms will not play a part in the new presidential petition. [Photo/frontpage]
Lawyer Alutalala Mukhwana has rubbished any possibilities of the recently gazetted electoral laws being employed in the ruling of Monday's presidential petitions against President Uhuru Kenyatta's win in the October 26 repeat.
Speaking on Citizen TV Monday, the lawyer said that having come in place after the Supreme Court's directive for a fresh poll, the laws will be completely inconsequential as the petitions will be handled in accordance with the old law.
"The laws have been gazetted but the election was conducted under the old laws rendering the amendments irrelevant in this case," he said.
His comments were echoed by fellow panelist and lawyer James Mamboleo who also said that the petitioners challenging the repeat poll are having very limited grounds unlike in the earlier challenge.
According to the lawyer, it will be very hard for any of the teams to touch on the poll outcome as none of the contestants has stood up against the exercise.
"It will be impossible for any of them to challenge the outcome as none of the petitioners directly took part in the race.They can only challenge the process but will have to leave the result part out," said Mamboleo.