UPDATE: Supreme Court to deliver ruling at 11am
The Supreme Court will deliver judgment on the presidential election petition filed by Nasa at 11am, the Judiciary has said.
An official at the Judiciary has confirmed that Registrar Esther Nyaiyaki has notified parties that the court will sit at 11am and that they should be seated in court by then.
The verdict of the Supreme Court on whether President Uhuru Kenyatta’s win in the August 8 elections was valid.
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Wafula Chebukati declared President Kenyatta winner of the election on August 11, announcing that the incumbent had garnered 8,223,163 against his closest rival Raila Odinga’s 6,822,812.
The judges can dismiss the petition altogether, meaning that President Kenyatta would be deemed duly elected, or they can declare the poll invalid, sending Kenyans back to the ballot in two months.
IRREGULARITIES
The rejected votes will play a key role in deciding whether President Kenyatta met the threshold of 50 per cent plus one vote.
However, Mr Odinga, of the National Super Alliance (Nasa), contests the win, arguing that the poll was marred by massive irregularities and inconsistencies.
He says there were “grave inaccuracies” that were either as a result of negligence by, or the willful intention of, the IEBC.
The Nasa leader argues that the poll agency adopted “a consistent pattern of increasing” President Kenyatta’s figures but reducing his votes.
Among the issues the seven judges will be grappling with are whether there were irregularities in the poll and, if so, whether they were massive enough to annul the results.
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