Two candidates in the Kitutu Chache South parliamentary election have gone to court challenging the outcome of the August 9 polls.
The petitions filed by Andrew Maubi (Wiper) and Kenani Omwando (independent) on Wednesday mark the first legal battle to challenge the victory of ODM's Anthony Kibagendi.
Kibagendi was declared the victor with 14,478 votes against Maubi (10,378), Eric Abuga (4,131) and Omwando (3,471).
The petitioners said Jubilee's Cynthia Toel has also shown an interest to be enjoined in the suit.
Through lawyer Shadrack Wambui the candidates spoke of a poll riddled with massive irregularities rendering the entire exercise gross and fatally defective.
"Today we turned up to fight an election we believe was substantially marred with several alterations," Wamboi said.
"Following the detected anomalies, my clients have rested their hopes in the Judiciary to audit the process to see if it met the threshold of a fair, credible, open and transparent poll."
Maubi and Omwando said they were seeking the court to thrash the entire electoral process so that "our people can be given an opportunity to pick a leader they deserve in a credible exercise."
"We are hanging on the hope that the court will audit every bit of the Kitutu Chache South poll to see if it meet the threshold of a fair election and if not we go back to the people," Wamboi said.
"We want every vote cast to count, we do not want to experience what we have unearthed, a scheme of willfully changing the will of the people through deliberate omissions and actions by people bestowed the responsibility of conducting a credible poll."
Wamboi said other irregularities include non-signed declaration forms which deny the exercise credibility.
"Widespread violence was also orchestrated to mar the entire process," he said.
(Edited by Tabnacha O)
