Yep. We need someone with balls of steel for that seat. Not a coward like Smoking. Someone the whole country can look up to and trust for that crucial decision regarding presidential petitions. After all handling presidential petitions is one of the key duties for the CJ job. How do you apply for a job whose key duty you do not want to perform?

Yes. He or she is the head of the supreme court that handles the presidential petitions.

I also thot Smokin's reluctance to hear a presidential petition and instead deferring it to a lower court automatically disqualifies him for the CJ's position. I am disappointed he does not understand that the reason the petition is taken directly to the supreme court is to expedite the judgement and avoid time wasting through unnecessary appeals.

He also needs to understand that the work of the supreme court is not to determine who the next president is but rather to confirm the decision already made by the electorate.

His explanation about hurting the feelings of 50% of the people is plain cowardice and shows a total lack of judgement that should even disqualify him from the judiciary, let alone the position he currently holds.

I hear sportpesa is now taking bets

IMHO Rtd Justice Ringera should have stayed at home...

But who knows he could make the shortlist ... I hear he made some solomonic rulings during his tenure at the bench ...

How old is the native ?