For starters, cool it man. Congrats are also in order, now that you have finally found your voice!

It is now mmmm.. fairly okay that Raila the main challenger to Uhuru in the election is the person going to court to challenge his victory.

The prudence of that decision - vis a vis the margin of votes that separates the two, the pronouncements of observers, local and international alike, the composition of IEBC, the events of the last one year in the run up to the elections including the pushing out Hassan and team, the managing of emotions of his followers etc – is a story for another time.

You know they say democracy is expensive, and in general I have no argument with that mantra, but there has got to be limits.

As it were, we might just be told by the enlightened one that it is time for Chebukati group to go and replace them with yet another lot. Remember as we speak today – for the month of August 2017 we are paying two sets of commissioners – Hassan group and Chebukati group, may be by November we will be paying a third group all to massage someone’s ego!
But you wont talk about that, or will you!

Back to going to supreme court. As a country and serious people, keen to manage our resources prudently and let our institutions run optimally, guarded against abuse and or frivolous interference in their calendar, there ought to be some valves, some sort of a sieve to ensure we are not co-opted into a jokers’ web.

Handling of Presidential election dispute at the Supreme Court should not be open to jokers. A requirement to deposit Ksh. 10m for instance would filter the jokers out, while on the other hand any presidential candidate with a good case and fair chance of winning the petition would not be impeded by that amount – I mean even his support base can raise that in one hour - Mpesa till No...

Someone like Okiya Omtata can pitch a tent at the high court and churn out litigation after litigation on whatever pleases his heart, but his ilk can not or should not be allowed to keep the nation on tenterhooks – merely, so that some busybody may have kicks.

Now show me how such guards imperil democracy while balancing it with not subjecting the country to absurdity and buffoonery

If I respond to each of your loaded paragraphs I predict this will lead to another argument on philosophy and like you, I don't feel the situation is appropriate for that.

Le me channel Clinton and Trump instead:

"I feel your pain, I really do"

All will be well, "Believe me"

Peace

I doubt this, first if Baba brings stories of hacking the court will simply say Look ours is a manual election and form 34B results are final, if you can get the 290 returning officers on the stand and ask each to stand by his results he announced at his center and all tally then the petition is thrown out.
Baba also claims to have results from ungazetted stations, does he have proof about this.
Is it also true that baba is looking to nullify the whole election from MCA to president?
Finally this evidence that baba has and is water tight seems to be only known to him, I am looking forward to the NASA side being torn into like hot knife through butter.

Has the petition been filed?

I hope there will be closure for you, although I really doubt it.

In fact the lack of closure in situations like this is good in that it pushes us always to search for 'better' - never mind that this destination 'better' is unlikely to ever be reached.

For me I prefer to view this mess from a perspective of 10,000 feet up, not eyeball to eyeball, being the only method I have found to break the lock of illusion that such dramas as this one tends to generate.

For instance:

(i) RAO's blinding ego is a major handicap for a leader, but the consequences of his likely humiliation again is that we stop deifying him. He's just human

(ii) Similarly the current deification of Uhuruto, especially by their supporters, the high expectations raised by reckless promises, will lead to bitter disappointment in Kenyans and very soon.

This is all good if it leads us to appreciate that our leaders are not miracle workers. We are responsible for the reality we create and while blaming someone else for our pain may feel good, it amounts to merely postponing the inevitable.

Also the 2013 Presidential petition created a precedence that will be quoted in this one. Which essentially raised the bar on the complainant so high that it is unlikely to be met.

Essentially to get the court to overturn the election, NASA not only have to prove that the process was flawed, but that such flaws could have affected the final result of the ENTIRE six elections, not just Presidential.

It will be easier to get 100 of their MP's to resign that to meet such a high threshold of proof, IMHO.

Summon some courage and say the truth!
Raila will not lose the case because of lack of attention to detail, but because he lost the election fairly and convincingly.

The challenge with Baba is getting the credible evidence he needs at the SC. If he provides statements and documents like what he provided at the first press conference with that IT guy, then the case becomes dead on arrival. Issues like algorithms, display of unsubstantiated results on the screen, illegal polling stations, un-gazetted returning officers all look credible but when put on test at the SC might crumble like the proverbial pie.

Great harvest time for lawyers though!

Taking ownership of the situation?