Why Decision 2013 was ridiculed, torn apart by scholars

Supreme Court judges, 2013

The precedent set by the Supreme Court in the 2013 presidential election was so stiff that a constitutional scholar described it as “a giant jurisprudential step backwards.”

In one of the most stinging critiques of the unanimous decision rendered against petitioner Raila Odinga, lawyer Wachira Maina came close to calling it the “death of presidential petitions” in the post-2010 constitutional era.