Ex-Senator Gloria Orwoba Withdraws Petition Against UDA, Senate, and IEBC
Her petition also asked the court to inhibit the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) from implementing a subsequent gazette notice
The Senate, through Gazette Notice Vol. CXXVII, No. 174 of August 18, 2025, had already set Consolata's swearing-in for August 20, 2025, making Orwoba more desperate for judicial relief. PHOTO/@gloria_orwoba/X
By Juliet Jerotich
Former United Democratic Alliance (UDA) nominated senator Gloria Magoma Orwoba has withdrawn a court petition she had lodged opposing her removal from the Senate.
The petition, filed at the Milimani Constitutional and Human Rights Division, sought conservatory orders to invalidate a gazette notice of May 21, 2025 (Vol. CXXVII, No. 97), which had declared her Senate seat vacant. Orwoba argued that the notice was unconstitutional and was of no legal effect.
Her petition also asked the court to inhibit the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) from implementing a subsequent gazette notice (Vol. CXXVII, No. 173) of August 15, 2025, which nominated Consolata Wabwire to replace her. She also wanted an order from the High Court barring the Senate from swearing in Consolata, claiming the nomination was illegal and procedurally flawed.
In her petitions, both the Senate notification to swear in her successor and the IEBC gazettement were riddled with irregularities that infringed on her rights. She maintained that the UDA, Senate, IEBC, and Office of the Registrar of Political Parties’ decisions to expel her from the party and strike her off its membership register were unconstitutional. Her petition wanted the court to declare the decisions null and void.
The Senate, through Gazette Notice Vol. CXXVII, No. 174 of August 18, 2025, had already set Consolata’s swearing-in for August 20, 2025, making Orwoba more desperate for judicial relief. She specifically complained in her petition of violation of her political rights, her right to fair administrative action, and her right to a fair hearing.
However, when the matter was brought up for mention before Justice Chacha Mwita on Thursday, September 18, 2025, Orwoba’s counsel, lawyer Ombaso, informed the court that a notice of withdrawal had already been filed on August 20, 2025. He asked the judge to have the matter marked withdrawn and the file closed.
Justice Mwita granted the request and issued a brief ruling: “The petition is marked withdrawn.”
Through that decision, the court battle which Orwoba had fought against her party and the key state organs came to an effective end, and it effectively paved the way for Consolata Wabwire to stay in office as the nominated UDA senator instead of her.
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