Gloria Orwoba seeks court order to stop successor’s entry into Senate
By Zipporah Ngwatu, August 20, 2025Former nominated United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Senator Gloria Magoma Orwoba has moved to the Milimani Constitutional and Human Rights Division seeking to block the swearing-in of her successor.
Through a certificate of urgency, Orwoba wants the court to bar the swearing-in of Consolata Wabwire, who was gazetted to take over her position in the Senate.
According to Orwoba, the decision of the IEBC to gazette and the gazette notice by the Senate to swear in Consolata on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, are marred by unlawfulness and procedural improprieties that warrant the High Court’s intervention at the first instance.
“That a conservatory order be issued quashing Gazette Notice Vol. CXXVII No. 174 by the Senate dated August 18, 2025, communicating the swearing-in of Consolata Wabwire as a nominated senator,” Orwoba states in the application.
Further, Orwoba seeks to have the court issue a conservatory order quashing Gazette Notice Vol. CXXVII No. 97 dated May 21, 2025, which declared a vacancy in the seat she held in the Senate.
She also wants the court to block the implementation of the decision of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in Gazette Notice Vol. CXXVII No. 173 dated August 15, 2025, nominating Consolata as a nominated senator in her place.
Orwoba avers that the gazettement of Consolata to take her place in the Senate by the IEBC was based on a purely void decision.
The controversial politician wants the court to declare the decision of UDA, the National Senate, IEBC, and the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties to expel her from UDA’s membership and remove her from the party’s register as unconstitutional, unlawful, null, and void.
“A declaration that the respondents (UDA, the National Senate, IEBC, and the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties) infringed on the petitioner’s (Orwoba’s) political rights, right to administrative action, and right to a fair hearing,” part of Orwoba’s application read.
Notably, she wants the court to prohibit the first to fourth respondents (UDA, the National Senate, IEBC, and the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties) from further violating or interfering with her rights as a nominated senator.
According to Orwoba, the decision of the IEBC to gazette and the Gazette Notice by the Senate to swear in Consolata on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, are marred by unlawfulness and procedural improprieties that warrant the High Court’s intervention at the first instance.
“To add salt to the injury, the respondents’ unlawful actions are all intentional, in an effort to suffocate the just determination of the matter that is pending before the PPDT, and to defeat the petitioner’s claim in the event that the appeal before the PPDT, whose decision is set to be rendered on August 20, 2025, is successful,” part of Orwoba’s application read.