• Sakaja said after the tribunal, he took CUE to court for contempt and judicial review as decisions were only made by one person.
•His degree was revoked for the second time on Thursday.
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Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja has linked his current tribulations regarding his degree to efforts by his political foes to bar him from being on the ballot.
Speaking in an interview at Spice FM on Friday, Sakaja said the revocation of his degree by the Commission for University Education was a political scheme by his competitors.
"This is a political move. Their rush on Thursday was to prevent Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission from gazzeting my name seeing they went to tribunal and lost," Sakaja said.
"I understand how these people operate. I know who says what and who gives which orders."
Sakaja said after the tribunal ruling, he took CUE to court for contempt and judicial review as decisions were only made by one person.
"A commission communicates through the law, but it has always been doing all the talking and all letters only signed by one person," he said.
Upon being asked why he is a target, Sakaja said people behind his misfortunes know Nairobi people have already chosen him and the opinion polls had placed him in the lead.
"I'm a target because Nairobi is important and they realise their candidate who is actually a project wouldn't win," Sakaja said, exuding confidence that he will still emerge at the top.
Sakaja's degree was revoked for the second time on Thursday.
In a letter to the IEBC, CUE said by the conclusion of investigations into the authenticity of the degree issued by Team University in Uganda, the governor candidate had not submitted any proof.
According to CUE, at the close of the investigation, they had not received any evidence from Team’s University or Sakaja himself of pursuing a degree.
“Failure to submit even the most basic evidence of study and the process of earning a degree inevitably renders the degree certificate submitted insufficient to prove that Sakaja studied either physically or through distance learning and that he holds an academic degree.”
IEBC's Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC) had cleared Sakaja to contest for the governor seat on June 19, 2022.