End of Rachier era? Sports Registrar orders Gor Mahia to return to ballot
Reading Time: 3min | Fri. 12.06.26. | 12:40
Rachier, as per a Wednesday directive, is in a group of office bearers to have gone past their permitted eight-year terms under the Sports Act
Sports Registrar Rose Wasike has directed record FKF Premier League champions, Gor Mahia, to issue a four-week election notice for the position of chairperson, and any other elected official whose term expired on Monday, 8 June 2026.
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Wasike, in a Wednesday, 10 June letter to the General Secretary of K’Ogalo, observed that Gor Mahia chairman Ambrose Rachier, and some of his counterparts, had completed their eight-year terms in office permitted under the Sports Act, kickstarting a path for new club elections for the affected individuals.
As per Wasike, Rachier, who has been the official Gor Mahia chairperson since 2008, had attained the maximum period permissible under the law, with his legally recognized tenure under the Sports Act beginning on 8 June 2018, when Gor Mahia was issued with a Certificate of Registration.
“Consequently, and taking into account the maximum tenure of eight years prescribed by the law, the Chairperson’s allowable tenure expired at midnight on 8th June 2026,” Wasike, who also noted that she had in March this year notified the club that the terms of some elected officials were due to expire in June, wrote in her directive.
“The office was expecting an election notice from the Secretary of the Club to its members and the Sports Registrar before 8th June 2026, but it seems the club ignored the provisions of the law and failed to issue the relevant notices for the purpose of replacing the Chair, and any other elected officials whose eight- year term has elapsed.”
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As Wasike indicates, Gor Mahia’s recently concluded elections of 13th April 2025 came at a time when “certain office bearers who were re-elected had nearly attained the maximum period permissible under the law.”
Then, when Rachier was voted unanimously, the Sports Registrar notes that the Senior Counsel had already served a full four-year term, and was therefore on his final one as permitted under the Sports Act and regulations.
The main point however, is that Wasike notes that Gor Mahia engaged in a delay tactic in trying to evade the eight-year term for elected officials, after contravening the law that required them to hold election within 90 days of its registration as a sports organization in 2018.
Gor Mahia, thanks to the delay, instead held their first elections on 8 August 2020, before the Sports Dispute Tribunal allowed the Chairman to vie on 13 April 2024, due to non-completion of the eight-year term provision.
The ball is now on Gor Mahia’s General Secretary Nicanor Arum’s court, with Wasike’s office expecting an election notice within two weeks, ending Wednesday, 24 June, and a similar notice to the Club Members by Wednesday, 8 July.
