Judges, CORD propose more time for presidential petition hearing

The Supreme Court of Kenya sitting in Nairobi during the Presidential petition Pre-trial hearing.[PHOTO:EVANS HABIL/STANDARD]

The three-minute long ruling of the presidential petition was pulsating and peculiar. And now the Judiciary and Opposition are united in defusing political tensions similar to those witnessed on March 30, 2013 when the Supreme Court upheld the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as Kenya’s fourth President.

Ever since the three-minute verdict delivery, Chief Justice Willy Mutunga has remained a source of heated debate, amusement, mockery and even ridicule among politicians and legal minds.