Editor's Review

The High Court has given an order to IEBC over Wiper Party nominated MP.

The High Court has ordered the Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to gazette Abubakar Talib as the duly nominated Member of Parliament for Wiper Party.

The court stated that the nomination of the Mombasa businessman was legal and valid after a row in the party over the allocation of the slot.

Talib’s name was the initial name to be submitted to IEBC by the Kalonzo Musyoka-led party on July 21 before being later replaced with that of Lucas Mulinge.

The Mombasa businessman headed to court to challenge the decision by Wiper as he claimed that his name was unlawfully omitted.

IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati.

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The court ruled that the submission of Mulinge’s name was null and void and that Talib’s nomination was legitimate.

In a gazette notice by IEBC on Wednesday, September 8, IEBC failed to gazette the name of a Wiper nominee to Parliament in what it cited as a court order barring the commission to allocate the seat.

In the notice, IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati stated that the listed names were validly nominated to represent their political parties.

“The seats referred to in the schedules have been allocated in proportion to the total number of seats won by the candidates of the political party at the general election held on August 9, 2022,” read part of the Gazette notice.