JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
(Rules 32(5) of the Court of Appeal Rules)This Court in a judgment rendered on 21st July, 2017 allowed the appeal lodged by the appellant challenging the decision of the High Court in Siaya H.C. Misc. Application No. 2 of 2017 by setting aside the ruling and orders made by that court on 30th June, 2017. We also, by that judgment, directed the 1st respondent to gazette the name of the appellant, Judith Anyango Elizabeth Oyugi, as the nominee of the 3rd respondent for Member of the County Assembly, East Asembo, Rarieda Constituency, Siaya County and to revoke Kenya Gazette No. 6759 of 14th July, 2017 in the Sixth Schedule, Serial No.1467 in which the 2nd respondent was gazetted as the latter’s nominee. Each party was to bear its own costs of this appeal. We reserved the reasons for the said judgment, which we hereby give within the same context outlined in the aforesaid judgement.
This is how this dispute arose.
The appellant and the 2nd respondent were among the eigh…