President Uhuru Drags Battle on Supreme Court Ruling to Parliament

President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged Parliament to move with speed and revise the law of precedent in relation to the presidential election nullification decision.

The President's proposal comes barely a day after Supreme Court Judge Njoki Ndungu, in her dissenting opinion, accused her colleagues judges of deliberately ignore a previous decision of the court on Section 83 of the Elections Act to favor a finding of nullity of the August 8th Presidential elections results.

In a televised news conference on Thursday, the Head of State said the Supreme Court owes Kenyans an explanation on what he termed as ‘the monstrous injustice’ that took place without due regard to evidence.

"The Supreme Court owes Kenyans an explanation on how such a monstrous injustice could have taken place," He said.

"Not only did the judgement rob the Kenyan people of their democratic right as exercised on Aug 8, but it also now has the potential to throw our country into judicial chaos,".

"The effect and precedent set in that singular judgement says that a bench can nullify the decision of millions of Kenyans without due regard to evidence. This position is diametrically opposed to the sovereign right our people have to elect leaders of their choice as enshrined in our Constitution," Uhuru said.

The President pointed fingers on Chief Justice David Maraga and his colleagues of declining to look into the voluminous forms and other evidence presented by the Commission and the lawyers.

President Kenyatta, however, maintained he shall comply with the judgment, but insisted that the will of the people had been subverted by the courts.

He reassured the government will do everything to facilitate the electoral commission in undertaking of the October 26th fresh presidential election.

Majority judges in their judgement said that they were convinced that the August 8th poll was not held within the dictates of the constitution and the law.

“We find that the 2017 presidential election was not conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Constitution and the written law on elections in that it was neither transparent nor verifiable. On that ground alone and on the basis of the interpretation we have given to Section 83 of the Elections Act, we have no choice but to nullify it,” the Court ruled.