Iganga fails to vote in NRM primaries
Sep 05, 2010
THE NRM party primaries failed to take off again in the 360 polling centres of Iganga district yesterday.
By George Bita
THE NRM party primaries failed to take off again in the 360 polling centres of Iganga district yesterday.
Party members and sub-county polling agents who had gone to the NRM offices on Mukwaya Road left by 11:00am as no electoral official was in sight.
“The next step would be meeting the contestants and forging a way forward,†Ismail Kyeyago, the district party chairman, told New Vision.
When the polls didn’t take place last Monday, the returning officer, Moses Magero, told journalists that the elections had been rescheduled for Saturday. However, on Saturday, Magero said voting was to be carried out the following day (Sunday).
Earlier on Friday, a group of rowdy members led by Kigulu South MP Milton Muwuma pitched camp outside the party offices, claiming that some ballot boxes with already marked votes had been kept there.
District chairman Asuman Kyafu and Muwuma are in a bitter struggle for the Kigulu South seat MP party card.
Muwuma’s supporters allegedly ransacked Iganga’s only FM radio station Eye FM on Friday night after its management gave Kyafu more airtime than his opponent.
“How could they suspend normal programming to campaign for Kyafu the entire day as if he is the only contestant?†asked Oliver Nabirye, a resident of Nakigo village.
THE NRM party primaries failed to take off again in the 360 polling centres of Iganga district yesterday.
Party members and sub-county polling agents who had gone to the NRM offices on Mukwaya Road left by 11:00am as no electoral official was in sight.
“The next step would be meeting the contestants and forging a way forward,†Ismail Kyeyago, the district party chairman, told New Vision.
When the polls didn’t take place last Monday, the returning officer, Moses Magero, told journalists that the elections had been rescheduled for Saturday. However, on Saturday, Magero said voting was to be carried out the following day (Sunday).
Earlier on Friday, a group of rowdy members led by Kigulu South MP Milton Muwuma pitched camp outside the party offices, claiming that some ballot boxes with already marked votes had been kept there.
District chairman Asuman Kyafu and Muwuma are in a bitter struggle for the Kigulu South seat MP party card.
Muwuma’s supporters allegedly ransacked Iganga’s only FM radio station Eye FM on Friday night after its management gave Kyafu more airtime than his opponent.
“How could they suspend normal programming to campaign for Kyafu the entire day as if he is the only contestant?†asked Oliver Nabirye, a resident of Nakigo village.