The NRM CEC scientific elections have been conducted without a major hitch and preliminary results show that Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and Sanjay Tanna are both leading in the two hotly contested positions in the party’s top governing organ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kadaga , has swept the eastern region leading in at least 11 districts and was also commanding a stable lead in Central and western regions beating her arch rival youth Tersis Namuganza with a commanding lead. Elsewhere , Mukula was was slightly ahead in the Acholi and Lango sub region , was still trailing Sanja Tanna who is still ahead in the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kadaga said that the CEC race had helped her to get to the ground and also appreciated more the people’s problems . She appreciated the scientific campaigns and polls because they have made the candidates to interface with the voters directly at the district level unlike when they come to Namboole Stadium . She also denied allegations that she was the one failing party facilitation noting that she has done her part as speaker to appropriate the required funds .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was also emphatic that she will contest for the position of speaker of parliament for another five years . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Kampala Geoffrey Nyakana was still trailing Salim Uhuru in another fiercely contested race . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NRM EC chairman , Dr. Tanga Odoi is yet to announce the official results and ugandaupdatenews.com <\/em><\/strong>shall keep you posted .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NRM CEC scientific elections have been conducted without a major hitch and preliminary results show that Speaker Rebecca Kadaga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rebecca-Kadaga-671x403-1.png","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1693,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/gen-kyaligoza-beaten-as-kadaga-wins-big\/","url_meta":{"origin":1684,"position":0},"title":"GEN. 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