Lukooya got 7 votes, Lugoloobi 6 and Awuye got 5 votes. Lukooya’s agent Sarah Mukajja said their supporters could have been scared by a possible recurrence of last week’s violence which saw people flogged and some hospitalized.
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Voting in the NRM primaries for the district chairperson and district councilors in Mukono have been concluded in a very low tone, with some polling stations having registered neither a single candidates’ agent or voter by close to 11.00am.
Many people’s opinions attributed the low or no turn up at all to the recent scuffles in the parliamentary primaries elections, rooted in violence and other irregularities which saw some voters and one candidate badly assaulted by police for alleged attempt to secure release of a registrar who was jailed for alleged manipulation of results to favour one candidate.
At Mulago polling station at Mukono General Hospital, there was only the agent of former LC V chairman Francis Mukoome Lukooya, while those of his contenders, Jimmy Lugoloobi and Yusuf Awuye, were conspicuously absent.
Lukooya got 7 votes, Lugoloobi 6 and Awuye got 5 votes. Lukooya’s agent Sarah Mukajja said their supporters could have been scared by a possible recurrence of last week’s violence which saw people flogged and some hospitalized.
At Nassuuti UCC polling station, only six voters turned up, all supporters of Mukoome Lukooya, and the registrar Andrew Semanda said enthusiasm could be high in remote areas and not in the urban set up of Mukono Municipality. The party register at this centre has a total of 142 registered NRM voters yet only six turned up.
At Kasangalabi, Lukooya who was the only candidate with an agent, got 22 votes while the other two got zero each.
A Lukooya supporter at UCC Nassuuti polling station Betty Katende said that although there were very few voters, her candidate was the winner because she scooped all the six votes that turned up.
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Katende suggested that in house elections should in future be carried out under the secret ballot arrangement to avoid scuffles that tend to scare voters.
Umar Ssebuyungo who is contesting for the card in the Mukono Central Division chairmanship, decried confusion in the party which he said have bred violence at elections, and continuing to bog down the party’s popularity in the district.
At UCC, six security officers including police, prisons and UPDF officers had been deployed and they hardly got any work to do in regards to the reasons behind their deployment given the only six voters who turned up.