By Standard Digital Reporter
Nairobi, Kenya: A petition filed at the constitutional court to stop gazettement of Evans Kidero as Nairobi governor received a setback as a judge failed to grant the order pending hearing and determination of the petition Friday.
Ferdinand Waititu who came second in the hotly contested Nairobi gubenatorial race had on Thursday filed a petition at the Constitutional Court to stop the gazettement of Evans Kidero as Nairobi Governor.
In the petition,Waititu wanted the court to order the cancellation of certificate of election issued to Kidero and his running mate Jonathan Mweke on grounds that votes from seven constituencies were illegally cast in their favour.
He wants the court to order a scrutiny of votes from seven constituencies to establish their validity.
The onstituencies are Westlands, Ruaraka, Langata, Kibra, Embakasi East and South, and Mathare.
Votes allegedly cast in Langata constituency Karen Assembly Ward at St Mary Primary School are in excess of the total number of registered voters there,” Waititu’s lawyer Harrison Kinyanjui said.
Justice Mumbi Ngugi declined to issue the order. Justice Mumbi instead ordererd waititu to serve respondents and appear before her Friday morning.
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