Otuko Apio was declared the winner of the by- elections from Oyam District headquarters by the Oyam district returning officer Richard Onoba. She garnered 15,718 representing 49.12 per- cent of the total votes cast defeating her closest rival Samuel Engola Okello of National Resistance Movement (NRM) who got 15,161 votes representing 47.38%.
The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) party candidate Eunice Otuko
Apio has been declared the winner of the Oyam County North by-elections.
Otuko Apio will replace Col (Rtd) Charles Okello
Engola, who was in May shot dead by his bodyguard Wilson Sabiiti.
Otuko Apio was declared the winner by the Oyam District Returning Officer Richard Onoba. She
garnered 15,718 votes defeating her closest rival Samuel Engola Okello
of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) who got 15,161 votes.
Freddy Newton Okello of Forum for Democratic Change was third with 714 votes followed by Daniel Okello, National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate who got 403 votes.
31,996 voters
participated in the elections out of the 90,733 registered voters from the 167
polling stations.
Otuko said that the win came as a surprise following cases of violence and vote stuffing.
She called on the other candidates to join hands for the
development of Oyam North.
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However, Engola Okello Samuel said he is yet to study the
results and issue a statement.
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Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi, the Electoral Commission
Chairperson said that the exercise was peaceful except for a few
incidences that were reported.
