NRM’s Orone remains unopposed in Gogonyo by-elections

By Elizabeth Ankunda

10^th Aug 2022

The ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM’s candidate in the Gogonyo County Parliamentary bye-lections Derrick Orone is only expected to be gazatted by the National Electoral Commission after all his opponents withdrew from the race.

The last candidate to withdraw from the race is the independent candidate Issa Taligola, who withdrawn his candidature from the race before the National Chairman of NRM, President Yoweri Museveni who had gone to campaign for the party candidate before the mammoth crowd at Kaukura Primary School playground in Gogonyo County.

President Museveni, on his part, told the excited gathering that he had put together his children, talked to them and they have accepted to step down.

He emphasized that elections are not about providing people with jobs but about solving the problems faced by the whole population.

The other candidates, Opolot of FDC and Okoboi of NUP, had earlier announced their withdrawal from the race.

The candidates were advised to put their withdrawal in writing to the Chairman of the Electoral Commission from where it will officially be declared.

However, the NRM National Chairman urged the people of Pallisa district and Gogonyo County, in particular, to unite and coexist amicably assuring them that tribal issues simmering between the Iteso, Bagwere and Bakenyi will be resolved mainly by the elders.

He urged them to vote for Orone in the Thursday by-elections as he will be sitting in the NRM caucus meetings and will articulate any problems faced by the people of Gogonyo County for the Government’s immediate attention.