Activist Okiya Omtatah on Monday, January 10, moved to court seeking to compel Deputy President William Ruto and other aspirants eying the presidency to resign from their current offices before presidential nominations.
In his argument in court, Omtatah said that a declaration should be made that any public officer including a sitting Deputy President, a sitting Governor, a sitting Deputy Governor, a sitting MP, and a sitting MCA is not qualified for nomination as a presidential candidate.
“A declaration be and is hereby issued that a sitting president, a sitting deputy president, a sitting governor, and a sitting deputy governor must vacate office before they can be elected to elective positions other than the ones they hold,” he said in the petition.
This is not the first time Omtatah is in court against the Deputy President.
In 2020, he sued Ruto alongside President Uhuru Kenyatta with the aim of unravelling the whereabouts of Ksh275 billion Eurobond.
Omtatah alongside his colleague Nyakina Wycliffe Gisebe wanted an explanation of how they spent the cash.
According to the lawsuit, the government had deposited the money to undisclosed offshore accounts.
The petitioners cited four scenarios that proved that the Eurobond money was either stolen and/or missing.
