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Kenya’s top court will hear a petition on Wednesday filed by three Kenyans that seeks the cancellation of a presidential-election rerun scheduled for the following day, according to the Judiciary.
The petitioners want the Supreme Court to compel the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission to cancel the vote, Judiciary spokeswoman Lilian Mueni said by phone on Tuesday from the capital, Nairobi. They also want the opposition National Super Alliance to be given the opportunity to nominate a presidential candidate afresh after its leader, Raila Odinga, withdrew from rerun, saying the ballot wouldn’t be credible.
Chief Justice David Maraga asked petitioners to serve IEBC and presidential candidates by 2 p.m. local time and for respondents to serve their responses in the morning, she said. The SC annulled the August 8 presidential election and ordered the IEBC to conduct a fresh poll within 60 days. “The withdrawal by the ODM/Nasa candidate Rt. Hon Raila Odinga and his running mate Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka on the 10th of October 2017, triggered the vacation of the fresh presidential election date of October 26 by operation of law,†the three petitioners said in a court filing.