Former Nairobi governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko has petitioned the Supreme Court to have the ruling from last week overturned.
In the review, he also requests that Supreme Court Justice Martha Koome recuse herself from the proceedings.
He claims that if the requested orders are not granted, he will suffer great injustice.
His claim is that he was never given enough time or the opportunity to present evidence because the request to have the CJ recuse herself from hearing the appeal was made orally and in a short amount of time thus denying him a chance for a fair trial in his petition.
Sonko claims that the CJ made comments in a radio interview on May 28, 2018, through his attorneys.
“Martha Koome had already taken an opinion that she had made a statement that impeached governors are not supposed to be on the ballot… Anyone who is supposed to vie and is convicted is not supposed to be on the ballot, which was wrong it is against the constitution.”
On Friday, July 15, the Supreme Court dealt the former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko a big blow after it ruled that his impeachment was properly done.
The seven-judge bench dismissed Sonko’s appeal in which he had argued that his removal from office was unprocedural.
In his appeal, Sonko had argued that due process as delineated under Article 181 of the Constitution, Section 33 of the County Governments Act, 2012, and the Nairobi City County Assembly Standing Orders was not complied with.
The Court of Appeal and the High Court had previously dismissed Sonko’s appeal of his impeachment process. On December 17, 2020, the Senate upheld the decision by 88 Nairobi MCAs of the county assembly to impeach Sonko.
