The seven Supreme Court judges are today Monday, September 5, expected to read their verdict on the consolidated presidential election petitions.
Raila had requested the apex court to declare the August 9, presidential election results null and void stating that none of the four presidential candidates achieved the 50 percent plus one vote threshold.
Constitutionally, for one to be declared the president, the candidate must meet some set conditions among them getting at least 50 percent plus one vote of the total valid votes cast.
Speaking when he met Meru leaders led by Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya on Sunday, September 4, the former Prime Minister said he had high hopes that the Supreme Court will overturn IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati’s declaration that Ruto is the fifth president-elect.
“We are confident that our cause is just. I don’t want to speculate or anticipate the ruling of the court but I believe that the judges are people who are learned and qualified and fair therefore I believe that they will deliver a just ruling,” Raila said.
Last week, Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition party captains Raila Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua said that the August 9, presidential elections were marred with illegalities and irregularities.
Through their lawyers, the Azimio team told the seven judges that the technology used by IEBC was corrupted, manipulated, and tainted.
In their submission, Raila’s legal team argued that the results announced by IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati on Monday, August 15, were not objective and did not represent the will of the people of Kenya.
According to Senior Counsel Philip Murgor, a group of about 50 people were given access to the IEBC servers and were tasked with determining the will of the majority of Kenyans.
“It came out that somewhere, somehow, in the Karen suburb, there was a group of about 50 people who had access to the ICT systems of IEBC. These people were intercepting results before being uploaded to the public portal,” Murgor told the Supreme Court.
