- Machanje is a professional boxer and the country's representative to the World Professional Boxing Association.
- Through his lawyer, he faulted the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal for issuing two contradicting verdicts.
A former Umoinner Sacco tout has asked the parties tribunal to set aside a ruling that nullified his nomination for Umoja II MCA in Embakasi West.
Shadrack Machanje claims he won the ODM primaries on April 22 but the incumbent MCA Joseph Ndonji rushed to the tribunal to contest the decision.
Machanje is a professional boxer and the country's representative to the World Professional Boxing Association.
Through lawyer Duncan Okatch, Machanje faulted the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal for issuing two contradicting verdicts in the nomination dispute.
On May 14 the tribunal nullified Machanje's nomination on grounds it was unprocedural after Ndonji petitioned.
The tribunal found that there were nominations and referred the matter to the party's National Elections Board.
"There was an admission that there was a second nomination. This tribunal found that it did not have jurisdiction and rightly so, any complaint should have been subjected to the party's internal dispute resolution mechanism," Okatch said.
"We now have a decision of the same tribunal on the same issues but, on the other hand, three days later the tribunal says it has no jurisdiction."
Okatch said Section 40(2) of the Political Parties Dispute Act prevents the tribunal from hearing and determining nomination disputes if they are not subjected to the party's internal dispute resolution mechanism.
"Any decision made afterwards is the decision that actually stands.We urge this court ought to take judicial notice so that we don't have conflicting points of law," Okatch said.
'We want the court to revisit its finding and set aside its decision and find that it has no jurisdiction in this case."
Ndonji came into the limelight after he was charged with assaulting pastor Jared Ouma Aruwa by kicking and punching him on May 30, 2019, at Kwa Miti along Manyanja Road in Tena estate.
The MCA was arrested on November 21, 2019, and has been out on Sh5,000 police cash bail.
Aruwa said Ndonji angrily asked him why he was frustrating his development projects by destroying electric poles that he had put up.
The tribunal will rule on the matter on Friday.
(edited by Amol Awuor)