{"id":7968,"date":"2022-06-08T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T09:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7968"},"modified":"2022-06-08T09:26:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T09:26:35","slug":"mombasa-gubernatorial-aspirant-mike-mbuvi-sonko-is-now-heading-to-the-supreme-court-in-a-bid-to-get-cleared-by-the-independent-electoral-and-boundaries-commission-iebc-to-contest-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7968","title":{"rendered":"Mombasa gubernatorial aspirant, Mike Mbuvi Sonko, is now\u00a0heading to the Supreme Court\u00a0in a bid to get cleared by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to contest in the August 9 polls."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing the press on Tuesday, June 7, the former Nairobi governor expressed concerns over IEBC&#8217;s failure to clear him despite having an appeal over his candidature pending in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He wondered why the Commission&#8217;s chairperson, Wafula Wanyonyi Chebukati, barred him from being cleared yet former Kiambu governor, Ferdinand Waititu Babayao, was one of the candidates gazetted to participate in the Nairobi by-elections after his impeachment in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, Sonko maintained that his degree certificate was legit revealing that IEBC officials did not have a problem with it further calling his supporters to remain calm until the matter is determined by the seven Judges of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Martha Karambu Koome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy people, remain calm because we do not want chaos. We are not giving up. We will pursue this matter further<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite Sonko&#8217;s latest move, Chebukati warned candidates with pending issues that the Commission will start preparations for the election including printing of ballot papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Mike-S.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Mike-S.webp 700w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Mike-S-480x240.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing the press on Tuesday, June 7, the former Nairobi governor expressed concerns over IEBC&#8217;s failure to clear him despite having an appeal over his candidature pending in court. He wondered why the Commission&#8217;s chairperson, Wafula Wanyonyi Chebukati, barred him from being cleared yet former Kiambu governor, Ferdinand Waititu Babayao, was one of the candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/sonkooo.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7971,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions\/7971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}