The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta has accused the country’s Supreme Court of undertaking a ‘coup’ in their decision to nullify his electoral victory on August 8.
The Supreme Court by majority decision ordered fresh elections after the opposition leader, Raila Odinga filed a petition challenging the election results.
The court said the presidential election was characterized by irregularities and that the election commission did not follow the constitution in organizing the poll.
On Wednesday a full judgement by the judges was made public detailing why four of the judges ordered a fresh election and why the two other dissenting judges disagreed with that decision.
President Kenyatta told leaders of his Jubilee party that the court’s decision was a “coup by four people sitting in court.”
“This was a coup…I must call it what it is,” he said, at the State House in Nairobi.
“This is a voice of a few, who on their own decided they can choose a leader for the majority of Kenyans. If this is not dictatorship, I don’t what it is,” he said.
Kenyatta said “The judgment has shown the voice of the people matters no more. What matters is the voice of a few people, who arrogate to themselves powers they don’t have,” he said.
“They say numbers don’t matter but they refused to look at the important documents, which is the only way to determine the expression of people’s sovereign will,” he said.
The president said “In a free country source documents best express people will, but the judges refused to look at them. They are lucky they are dealing with a polite man, who respects the constitution and is not interested in seeing Kenyans fight,”
Fresh presidential election is expected to be held on October 17.
Source: Africafeeds.com
