The much-awaited Supreme Court judgment of the presidential petition will be delivered on Monday, September 5, at noon.
According to a notice from the registrar of the Supreme Court of Kenya, Letizia Wachira, the seven-judge bench will be expected to deliver the judgment at Milimani Law courts.
The judges comprise Chief Justice Martha Koome, Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, Isaac Lenaola, Smokin Wanjala, Ibrahim Mohammed, Njoki Ndungu and William Ouko.
"Take notice that the judgment in this petition will be delivered on Monday, September 5, 2022, at noon at the Supreme Court of Kenya Milimani Law Courts," read part of the notice.
Azimio's Raila Odinga and Martha Karua filed a petition challenging the outcome of the presidential election in favour of president-elect, William Ruto.
Among the issues that Raila pointed out in his petition included; Ruto did not garner the 50 percent plus one vote requirement, arguing that results from 27 constituencies were yet to be tallied and verified by the time of the announcement.
Azimio also claimed that IEBC could not account for 250,000 votes, excluding the manual votes cast. Raila and his running mate sought the apex court to declare them president-elect and Deputy president-elect respectively.
Raila also sought a comprehensive and forensic audit of all equipment and technology used by the electoral commission in the presidential election. Raila also sought Chebukati to be declared unfit to hold public office.
A total of nine petitions were filed challenging the presidential outcome. The Supreme Court later consolidated seven petitions into one, arguing that the issues raised in the seven petitions were parallel to each other and would be merged with the lead petition filed by Raila.
"Upon perusing and considering issues raised in the petitions we find that they lay similar issues and seek similar orders therefore we order that the petitions be and hereby consolidated with petition E005 which is the lead presidential election petition for 2022," Koome stated.
The Supreme Court is expected to base its judgment on nine key issues which were highlighted during the pre-trial conference. By
