The Supreme Court had convened to deliver a ruling on an application for discovery in which the petitioner sought to effect an audit of Biometric Voter Verification records and Election results transmission technology.
However, the Registrar of Supreme Court called the parties to chambers in order to give administrative guidance after discovering that Mr. Kasibante has applied to withdraw the petition.
The conclusion of the chamber proceedings was that the respondents should file their responses to the application to withdraw the petition, and the court shall notify the parties of its final decision either physically or through the court online platform ECCMIS.
The Attorney General, Hon Kirwowa Kiwanuka emphasised that as the representative of the 1st respondent, they are not willing to object to the application to withdraw the petition, maintaining that the prayer of the respondents is that court dismisses the petition. As such, a withdrawal by the petitioner would ease this desired result.
However, the representative of the Electoral Commission who is the 2nd respondent decried the act of withdrawing presidential petitions as it derives the country of a chance to see major developments in our jurisprudence as the presidential petition is a source of major jurisprudential evolution.
Although the representatives for the petitioner didn’t speak to us, the petitioner himself personally addressed media confirming the withdrawal of the petition.
