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The Kenyan Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the petition by One Kenya Coalition Party (Azimio) leader Raila Odinga and six others challenging the election of United Democratic Alliance candidate William Ruto as President on August 15, this year.
Kenyan Chief Justice Martha Koome read out the judgment of the seven-member bench, which she described as “unanimous”.
“This is a unanimous decision of the court and we make the following orders,” she said.
“That the presidential election petition number E005 of 2022 as consolidated with Presidential election petitions E001,2,3,4,7 and 8 of 2022 are hereby dismissed. As a consequence, the declaration of the first respondent as president-elect as valid.”
Koome said the court had determined that each party bears its own costs since the matter cut across the public interest.
She said in dismissing the consolidated petitions, the court had found that the irregularities and illegalities that the petitioners had pointed out were not of such a magnitude to affect the final result of the election.
Some of the issues that the court had been called upon to consider included whether the technology that IEBC had deployed was appropriate, whether Ruto had garnered the required 50 percent plus one vote threshold to be declared the winner and whether the IEBC computer server had been hacked. – New Ziana.
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