Consolota Wakhwabubi Nabwire has been sworn in as a nominated senator, replacing Gloria Orwoba.
The swearing-in took place during the Senate sitting on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, as the first order of business.
Wakwabubi was asked to rise and walk to a designated area in the chamber, where she was accompanied by fellow nominated senator and former UDA Secretary General Veronica Maina and took her oath of office.
In her oath, she acknowledged her nomination status and pledged allegiance to the people and the Republic of Kenya, promising to uphold, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and to faithfully discharge her duties as a member of Parliament.
After completing the oath and placing down the Bible, the Speaker shook her hand, congratulated her on her new role, and officially welcomed her to the Senate.
“I, as a nominated member of the senate do swear in the name of almighty God, that I will bare true faith and allegiance to the people and the republic of Kenya, that I will obey, respect, uphold, preserve, protect and defend this constitution of the republic of Kenya, and that I will faithfully and consensually discharge the duties of a member of parliament. So help me God,” Consolata stated.
Orwoba’s court battle
Wakwabubi has been serving as a CEC in Bungoma County and unsuccessfully contested the woman rep position and lost it at the primaries.
This comes moments after her predecessor, Gloria Magoma Orwoba, had moved to the Milimani Constitutional and Human Rights Division seeking to block the swearing-in of her successor.
Through a certificate of urgency, Orwoba had demanded that the court bar the swearing-in of Consolata Wabwire, who was gazetted to take over her position in the Senate.
According to Orwoba, the decision of the IEBC to gazette and the gazette notice by the Senate to swear in Consolata on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, are marred by unlawfulness and procedural improprieties that warrant the High Court’s intervention at the first instance.
“That a conservatory order be issued quashing the Gazette Notice Vol. CXXVII No. 174 by the Senate dated August 18, 2025, communicating the swearing-in of Consolata Wabwire as a nominated senator,” Orwoba states in the application.
Further, Orwoba seeks to have the court issue a conservatory order quashing the Gazette Notice Vol. CXXVII No. 97 dated May 21, 2025, which declared a vacancy in the seat she held in the Senate.
