The five candidates who contested for the Ajuri County parliamentary seat will not be campaigning ahead of the repeat election scheduled by the Electoral Commission.
Uganda held presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday last week with most results released the following day.
However, results for Ajuri County in Alebtong District have not been declared due to discrepancies in results from one polling station in Abako Sub-county and 17 polling stations in Awei Sub-county.
One of the candidates cited anomalies at two polling stations.
At Te-Ongora polling station in Awei Sub-county, the incumbent reportedly received 67 votes, but a prefix “4” was added, changing the figure to 467 votes, despite the total number of voters who turned up to vote for both the Woman Member of Parliament and the President being only 231.
The second polling station cited is Alam B, where the incumbent allegedly received 61 votes, but a prefix “1” was added, making it 161 votes, a figure that did not match the official declaration forms issued to other candidates.
As a result, the Electoral Commission has scheduled a repeat election on the 27th of this month in the affected sub-counties.
Jessica Adongo Ocen, the Alebtong District Returning Officer, says tallying of results for Ajuri County has not yet been concluded.
The candidates contesting for the Ajuri County parliamentary seat include the incumbent and Government Chief Whip, Denis Hamson Obua, Fred Jalameso of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Emmanuel Ongom Okwel of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), and independent candidates Stephen Omara and Tom Jasper Molo.
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