<p class="ql-align-center">REPUBLIC OF KENYA</p><p class="ql-align-center">IN THE SUPREME COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI</p><p class="ql-align-center">(<em>Coram: Mutunga, CJ and P; Rawal, DCJ and V-P; Tunoi, Ibrahim, Ojwang, Wanjala and Njoki, SCJJ</em>)</p><p class="ql-align-center">PETITION NO. 13 OF 2014</p><p class="ql-align-center">-BETWEEN-</p><p class="ql-align-center">NATHIF JAMA ADAM....................................................................APPELLANT</p><p class="ql-align-center">-AND-</p><p class="ql-align-center">1. ABDIKHAIM OSMAN MOHAMED .</p><p class="ql-align-center">2. SAHAEL NUNO ABDI</p><p class="ql-align-center">3. THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL AND BOUNDARIES COMMISSION</p><p class="ql-align-center">4. RETURNING OFFICER, GARISSA COUNTY.................RESPONDENTS</p><p class="ql-align-center"><em>(Being an appeal from the Judgement and Orders of the Court of Appeal at Nairobi in Civil Appeal No. 293 of 2013 (Maraga, Mwera and Mwilu JJA) dated 23</em><em>^rd</em><em> April, 2014)</em></p><p class="ql-align-center">JUDGMENT</p><p class="ql-align-justify">A. INTRODUCTION</p><p class="ql-align-justify">[1] This is an appeal against the Judgement of the Court of Appeal, overruling the decision of the High Court sitting at Nairobi <em>(Mabeya, J.)</em> in <em>Election Petition No. 2 of 2013</em>, delivered on 24^th September, 2013. The upshot of that decision was the invalidation of the election of the appellant, as Governor of Garissa County.</p><p>BACKGROUND</p><p class="ql-align-justify">[2] The appellant, Mr. Nath…</p>