GCW Obua Lures Omoding to NRM

2 March 2023, 7:37 pm

By Frank Oyugi

Emmanuel Omoding, the newly elected legislator representing the people of Serere county has on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with the ruling National Resistance Movement party.

He signed the MOU in the presence of the Government Chief Whip Denis Hamson Obua who is also the Ajuri County Mp as well as the party’s Secretary General Richard Towdwong.

Qfm has not been so privy to detailed discussions between both parties but what we know for now is that both the GCW and SG convinced Omoding to let go of the old impasse and join the mass party for the greater good of his constituency.

Omoding, the son to the late Patrick Okabe, was declared the winner of the Serere County parliamentary by-election by the Electoral Commission last week and was sworn in on Wednesday.

Omoding who stood in the by-election as an independent candidate got 15638 beat NRM’s Philip Oucor who got 13206 and were running neck to neck whereas Alliance for Nation’s Alice Alaso came third with 3335 votes.

On the other side, independent candidate Martin Onguruco got 2523 votes to come fourth whereas Forum for Democratic Change’s Emmanuel Eratu got 1252 votes and came last.