By KT Reporter
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party candidate won almost all elective positions under the Special Interest category in Arua City.The election, whose results were announced on Wednesday night, saw the incumbent female councillor for PWDs, Kadija Aliru, regain her seat. She contested as the NRM candidate against the independent candidate, Candiru Aisha. Aliru recieved al the ten votes to emerge as the winner.
She said she won because of her work in the last council. She promised to work harder to support education for everyone and improve services in her new term.
In the same way, the male councillor for people with disabilities, Suabir Bakole Major, who represented NRM, was re-elected with 9 votes. He beat independent candidate Cox Erima, who got 1 vote.
Bakole hopes to continue with the fight to end stigma against persons with disabilities and ensure they benefit from different government programs that have been introduced, yet most of them cannot access them.
While in the category of youth, both female city youth councillor, Hope Perry Nyadri, and male city youth councillor, Gift Magyezi, went unopposed, all on the NRM party ticket.
NRM also won the position of male councillor for older persons, Marino Acia, who sailed unopposed. But the party suffered defeat in the position of female councillor for older persons, which was won by Josephine Andiru, who obtained 06 votes against 04 votes for NRM flag-bearer Joyce Ndezu.
This win came as a surprise to Andiru, who cited the bad politics of using too much money by some candidates, which she said affects the quality of good leaders in the council, and commended voters for trusting her in the position.
Hitler Alioni, a councillor for the workers’ representative in the council, retained the seat with 60 votes, beating his closest competitor, another independent candidate, John Daniel Andruga.
Andruga got 54 votes, while the NRM’s Christopher Sunday Acidri scored 20 votes. Independent candidate Felix Denis Droti fetched four votes.
Hitler Alioni attributes the victory to his good working relationship with people and exposure while interacting with different people in the city.
Although Droti conceded defeat, he said there were irregularities in the election, stating that some of the voters were not eligible.
Other political parties did not present candidates for this election, giving an open way for the NRM to win almost all the seats.
The newly elected councillors will join the Arua City Council for a five-year term from 2026 to 2031, when another election will be conducted.
They are expected to represent people from different categories in the council and debate on their behalf.
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