Written by Joyce Nzomo
Former nominated UDA Senator Gloria Magoma Orwoba has formally withdrawn a constitutional petition in which she had challenged her removal from the Senate.
Orwoba had filed the case at the Milimani Constitutional and Human Rights Division, contesting a gazette notice of May 21, 2025 that declared her seat vacant. She also sought to invalidate a subsequent IEBC notice, which nominated Consolata Wabwire as her replacement.
In the petition, the former senator requested conservatory orders to bar the Senate from swearing in Consolata, who was later listed in Gazette Notice of August 18, 2025, as scheduled to take oath on August 20, 2025. Orwoba argued that the IEBC’s decision and the Senate’s subsequent gazettement were unlawful, procedurally flawed, and therefore null and void.
She further sought declarations that her expulsion from UDA and removal from the party register by UDA, the National Senate, the IEBC, and the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties were unconstitutional. Her application claimed these actions violated her political rights, her right to fair administrative action, and her right to a fair hearing.
However, when the matter came up before Justice Chacha Mwita on Thursday, September 18, 2025, her advocate, Ombaso, notified the court that a notice of withdrawal had already been filed on August 20, 2025. He requested that the case be marked as withdrawn and the file closed.
Justice Mwita granted the request and issued a brief ruling: “The petition is marked withdrawn.”
