Azimio’s secret cards in Supreme Court case seeking to invalidate Ruto’s win
3 min readAzimio’s secret cards in Supreme Court case seeking to invalidate IEBC declaration of William Ruto as President-Elect.
Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga is set to file a case at the Supreme Court challenging IEBC’s declaration of Deputy President William Ruto as President-Elect.
According to a publication by Daily Nation, multiple accounts by people familiar with ongoing efforts to mount a ‘watertight’ presidential petition point to a strong determination by the Azimio coalition to persuade the Supreme Court judges to overturn William Ruto’s win.
The drafting of the petition is said to be at an advanced stage and it will be filed by tomorrow’s Supreme Court-imposed 2 pm deadline.
The Azimio team has put together a group of lawyers including senior counsels Pheroze Nowrojee, Phillip Murgor, James Orengo, and Amos Wako.
Other legal minds include Prof Tom Ojienda, Daniel Maanzo, Otiende Amollo and Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.
Azimio’s secret cards in Supreme Court
The Azimio team intends to table a damning audit report that warned of rogue Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) employees who had unfettered login credentials to single-handedly manipulate the voters’ register, including having the powers to transfer polling stations without any oversight.
The audit report by consulting firm KPMG captured cases of voters who were either double-registered or were registered using expired passports or fictitious ID card numbers.
The report revealed that there were 14 enigmatic Returning Officers (ROs) who had been in charge of the IEBC Integrated Database Management System, exposing significant security flaws in the 2022 voter registration (IDMS).
The report discovered weak password systems and the login information for phantom electoral officials, raising the possibility that hackers could gain access to the database and deny voters their right to cast ballots by either deleting their names from the voter list or moving them to another polling location.
The research identified 10 users going by the moniker of “Embakasi South Clerks.” Four more unapproved IT users were present.
Additionally, there were two additional ABIS users with the same login information in addition to the 11 current generic accounts on the Automated Biometric System (ABIS) program.
Further scrutiny of the register revealed that the RO user accounts in IDMS were not allocated to the named users.
The lawyers will cite an ‘abnormal’ turnout of voters in some parts of the country in favour of the Kenya Kwanza Alliance, suspect application of electronic devices used in voter registration and voting, and irregularities and discrepancies in the final results.
The number of votes cast for other elective positions, such as governor, senator, and women’s representative, is claimed to have been hundreds of thousands lower than that for the president.
The petition will request information from the IEBC regarding the voter turnout figures actually recorded in the Kenya Integrated Electoral Management System (Kiems) kits and the number of voters who were verified through the manual register.
They will also argue the electoral commission’s decision to grant universal access to Forms 34A, B, and C in the online portal opened a window for manipulation of the documents, which they will prove by tabling an audit report.
They will seek to convince Chief Justice Martha Koome’s team that tallying was not fully completed at the time Mr. Chebukati declared Mr. Ruto as the winner of the polls since the results of 28 constituencies were not yet verified.
The petition claims that the final tally announced by Iebc chair Wafula Chebukati is invalid since the commission never sat to verify and consider spoilt votes.
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