By MN Reporter

Migori governor Okoth Obado last Monday received the court petition seeking his seat to be declared vacant after he decamped from PDP to ODM party.

The petition was received via Migori county government legal attorney office with two weeks to respond to the petition by three voters George Obuya Owuor, George Ohuru Bonyo and Wilson Chacha Caleb through Bosire Gichana and Company Advocates.

The three through Bonyo, former Rongo town mayor, has said the petition is not funded by any of Obado’s governor’s rivals in 2017 elections insisting they can fund the court petition.

“We are capable of funding the petition and nobody is funding it including any Obado rivals for 2017 governor race,” Bonyo told Migori News.

But he said any other person can join the petition as an interested party after it was filed on August 10.

While Owuor and Bonyo are ODM members, Wilson Chacha Caleb is a People Democratic Party member from Kuria West.

On July 8, Obado publicly decamped from PDP where he was elected in last polls to ODM during a public rally by Cord leader Raila Odinga during the homecoming party of Suna East MP Junet Mohammed.