President Yoweri Museveni yesterday pitched camp in Soroti to campaign for NRM’s Herbert Ariko who battles the flamboyant Moses Attan of FDC and UPC’s Pascal Amuriat for the Soroti East Member of Parliament seat.
The president was received by a mammoth of jubilant National Resistance Movement fanatics donning their symbolic yellow t-shirts.
Top NRM leaders including Vice President Jessica Alupo and Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja spent a significant part of Saturday canvassing support for Herbert Ariko, the party flagbearer in the Soroti East by-election scheduled for Thursday 28th July 2022.
President Museveni joined in to add voice to the many pleas echoed by NRM’s strong holds. While addressing thousands of the seemingly fervent NRM supporters in Soroti, the President in his capacity as the NRM chairman blamed the people of Soroti for sending him the wrong elements and uncooperative MPs who don’t understand the NRM ideology which suffocates service delivery.
“You are here saying that soroti has had no minister for 20 years, you elected people I even don’t know and I said what can I do, let me leave soroti. In politics, it is not about Ariko or Museveni, it’s about what party can help solve our problems and in this case, the party which can solve and has solved many of the problems of Ugandans is the NRM. Therefore, the candidate who comes and says that he is for NRM is the one you should go for if you want service delivery,” Said president Museveni.
The former Speaker of Parliament Anita Among’s Principal Private Secretary Herbert Ariko faces stiff competition from FDC’s Moses Attan in his strive to clinch the Soroti East Member of Parliament seat. FDC’s Moses Attan is a joint candidate for Both Forum for Democratic Change and National Unity Platform.
The Soroti East Member of Parliament seat ran vacant after the Court of Appeal nullified the victory of FDC’s Moses Attan.
Court ruled that the Electoral Commission had failed in its mandate to conduct free and fair elections disenfranchising over 4,560 voters following the transfer of iyai and Aloet wards from Soroti East to Soroti West.
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