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How top court should deal with petitions on presidential election

The Supreme Court of Kenya. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Allow us to make a rather obvious prediction.

After the winner of the presidential election has been announced by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), a petition will be logged at the Supreme Court to challenge the results as announced by the IEBC. In that petition, the petitioner will, first, question the preparedness of IEBC and, second, provide evidence of cases of election malpractices.

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