President Uhuru Kenyatta receives the certificate of President-Elect of the Republic of Kenya after he was announced the winner of the repeat presidential election by IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati on October 30 at the Bomas of Kenya. [Photo|Reuters.com]President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday filed his replies at the Supreme Court seeking to dismantle the two petitions filed by former Kilome MP Harun Mwai activists Njonjo Mue and Khelef Khalifa. Both petitions seek to have Uhuru's October 26 presidential victory nullified. However, the President in three strong replies seeks to affirm why his election must not be nullified.First, in a reply to the Mue-Khalifa petition, Uhuru asserts that Khalifa, as a registered member of ODM, cannot purport to file the case which arises out of the wrongdoing of his own party."It is ODM’s candidate Raila Odinga who withdrew from the last election, in effect sabotaging the exercise and as such his party cannot challenge the results," reads a part of Uhuru's reply.Second, on the issue of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) being allegedly controlled by Jubilee Party to give a favourable election date, the court was told that this is a mere rumour.The president argues that the election date was set within the period stipulated by the Supreme Court and the IEBC, among other things, considered a suitable date with the form four and class eight national exams timetable in mind because schools are used as polling centres.Finally, as for the controversial election laws passed hurriedly ahead of October 26 repeat poll, Uhuru tells the Supreme Court that that did not in any way seek to diminish the role of technology in elections.National Assembly Majority Leader Adan Duale says in a sworn affidavit that the new law only sought to provide clarity on what would happen in the event that technology fails with a view to securing the credibility of the election results.

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