Wednesday 23 January 2013

TNA RESPONDS TO OTHAYA CONFLICT.

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE [T.N.A] ON THE OTHAYA NOMINATION

TNA put together a team of highly competent and respected personnel to manage the Party’s dispute resolution mechanism. To that end, the team quickly and fairly heard all grievances lodged with us. It is a credit to the quality of the nominations exercise that only seven (7) seats saw a reversal of the initially announced results.

On the Othaya matter, after carefully considering all the evidence adduced before it by both the challenger and Ms. Mary Wambui; as well as considering independent testimonies from the Returning Officer, Vote Tallying personnel, Observers and reports from Media and voters; it was the decision of the Tribunal that the nomination of Ms. Wambui was factually correct in that she indeed garnered the highest numbers of votes in the nominations. 

Additionally, the Tribunal found that the nomination was not impaired by any irregularities that would otherwise render it a nullity or cast doubts on the veracity of the results.

Accordingly Mr. Gichuki Mugambi’s application was dismissed with no order as to costs with a right to further appeal, of which he didn’t initiate.

We wish to inform the challenger as well as the general public that pursuant to Section 74 of the Elections Act that there is an avenue open to those aggrieved by the decision of the TNA’s Tribunal to appeal the decision to seek the intervention of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in this matter.

The Nominations Disputes Tribunal would like to thank you all those who appeared before it or presented evidence in this matter for the assistance and cooperation they afforded it.

The official record of the decisions of the Nominations Disputes Tribunal is available from the Party upon request. Additionally, we shall shortly be uploading it onto our website.

Sakaja Johnson
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
TNA

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