The two-day exercise which will end on Tuesday commenced on Monday morning with the nomination of the first aspirant Jane Rose Adongo Elau Okello, the NRM flagbearer.
The
Electoral Commission(EC) has commenced nominations of candidates for the Dokolo Woman Parliamentary by-elections. The winner
will replace the late Cecilia Barbara Atim Ogwal who succumbed to cardiac arrest
from a hospital in India where she was receiving treatment for cancer.
The
two-day exercise, which will end on Tuesday commenced on Monday morning with the
nomination of Jane Rose Adongo Elau Okello, the National Resistance Movement party candidate. Erikwaine
Ngobi, the Dokolo District Electoral Commission Registrar who presided over the nomination, said all
her academic documents have been vetted.
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Other
aspirants including Sarah Aguti Nyangkori, the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) candidate, Dr.
Esther Akullo Obot, an Independent, and Dr. Rosemary Alwoc Ogwal from
the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party are expected to be nominated later
today.
Speaking
shortly after the successful nomination of their candidate, Rosemary Seninde an official from the ruling NRM party urged the people
of Dokolo to vote NRM candidate, saying that's the only way they will benefit
from this government.
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According
to the commission, the candidates will campaign for only seven days ahead of voting
which will take place on March 21, 2024.
