A former nominated senator has moved to court seeking the postponement of the next general elections to 2023.
Paul Njoroge want the court to postpone the general elections scheduled for august 2022 on grounds that Independent Electoral Boundaries commission IEBC, is undertaking an illegal procurement.
Njoroge also argues that the election body was incomplete when the date of the 2022 general elections was declared and that it lacked  a substantive Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Secretary to the Commission.
“The intended presidential election of 9th August is imposed on the people of Kenya through an administrative fiat of the IEBC and therefore illegal, irregular and illegitimate,” Njoroge says.
In his petition, the ex-senator further states that the term for president Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto to be in office will expire in November since the two were re-elected on October 26, 2017 and not in August since the presidential elections were nullified.
The constitution states that general elections are to be held on the second Tuesday of August after every five years. In this case, the 2022 general elections are supposed to be held on August 9, 2022.
The move by Njoroge comes after the Procurement Review Administrative Board ordered IEBC to provide a fresh tender for the supply of the Kenya Integrated Elections Management System within a period of 45 days.
IEBC had set the local preference margin at 15 per cent in the process of procuring the state-of-the-art information system for use in the 2022 General Election.
A firm trading as Risk Africa Innovations Limited, which did not bid, challenged the process, accusing the IEBC of breaking the law by setting 40 per cent preference award to local contractors.
The firm, argued that the IEBC sought to define the local content to a maximum of 15 per cent.
The former senator who represented persons with disabilities between 2013 and 2017.
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