The High Court has overturned the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal (PPDT) ruling that nulliefied a coalition agreement between Deputy President William Ruto led Kenya Kwanza and Speaker Justin Muturi's Democratic Party(DP).
While ruling on the appeal lodged by Speaker Muturi and other party officials who had challenged the tribunal ruling, Justice Joseph Sergon ruled that the Democratic Party (DP) is properly in the Kenya Kwanza Alliance arguing the the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal (PPDT) eered in it's ruling.
Justice Sergon also dismissed a complaint dated April 11 by the party's Deputy Secretary-General Wambugu Nyamu, Daniel Munene and Kingori Choto who claimed Muturi had taken up the role of the party leader despite opposition from a section of party members.
The PPDT had ruled that the coalition deal signed between the DP and Kenya Kwanza Coalition was illegal.
“An order dismissing the Preliminary Objection (PO) dated May 12 has also been set aside and is replaced with another upholding the PO,” noted the judge.
The tribunal had rejected the PO seeking to have the complaint struck out on grounds that the complainants had not exhausted the internal party mechanisms.
“I am convinced the (PPDT) committed an error in dismissing the PO. There was no application before it to extend the time to file and admit the complaint out of time,” Justice Sergon said, noting it cannot be said the PO was a procedural technicality
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