The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal on the impeachment of former Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko.
The decision now locks him out of running for the Mombasa County Gubernatorial race in teh August 9th election.
This is as the law stipulates that a person who has been impeached is automatically barred from holding public offices.
The ruling means Sonko can not be allowed to run after exhausting his appeal and failing to overturn his impeachment of December 2020.
The Supreme Court heard the appeal where parties argued their cases with Sonko insisting his impeachment did not meet the threshold set under the Constitution.
The appeal was heard on the day Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) cleared him to run for Mombasa Governor’s seat in the August polls.
On December 3, 2020, Sonko was impeached by 88 Nairobi Members of the County Assembly.
The case later proceeded to the Senate, as is required by the Constitution on December 17, 2020, where they upheld the resolution to remove him from office.