{"id":1693,"date":"2020-08-21T08:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T08:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2020-08-21T08:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T08:42:14","slug":"gen-kyaligoza-beaten-as-kadaga-wins-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/gen-kyaligoza-beaten-as-kadaga-wins-big\/","title":{"rendered":"GEN. KYALIGONZA BEATEN AS KADAGA WINS BIG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>The NRM delegates have returned Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga as the First Vice National Chairperson (female)\u00a0 beating her arch rival with more than half the vote. Kadaga received \u00a06,776 votes \u00a0while Persis Namuganza got 3,943 . \u00a0<br><br> The hybrid scientific polls the first of the kind due to the ravaging global-novel Covid-19 pandemic \u00a0saw the youthful\u00a0\u00a0 Dr.\u00a0 Chris Balyomunsi\u00a0 thump retired\u00a0 and\u00a0 NRM historical Gen.\u00a0 Matayo Kyaligonza in another fiercely contested position to represent the Western region on the party\u2019s top decision making organ. Baryomonsi received 5947 votes , while Kyaligonza got 2550, Florence Kintu 1875, Wilberforce Muhanji 1285 , Boaz Kafunda 662, Apollo Tibugaya 259 and Emmanuel Diini 224. \u00a0<br><br> The results which were declared by NRM EC Chairman , Dr. Tanga Odoi, returned \u00a0flight Capt. Mike Mukula the CEC member for eastern region after edging his nemesis\u00a0 Sanjay Tanna with 1,656 votes. Mukula polled 5,818 votes while Tanna got 4162 and Christine Harriet was in a distant 3<sup>rd<\/sup> with 162 votes. \u00a0 <br><br>Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanya\u00a0 swept the northern vote in a landslide with \u00a07,473 votes , Sam Engola &#8211; 1,665, Dr. Odong \u2013 277 and Joken 995. Karamoja\u00a0 will be represented by Aleper Simon peter who got 8,143 votes while Jimmy Lokoru \u00a0polled 2,220. \u00a0<br><br> In Kampala, Geoffrey Nyakana got 2665 lost to Signh Katongole \u00a04503, Uhuru Salim 2665. Godfrey\u00a0 Kiwanda will represent central region after receiving 4,749 beating Kaliisa Kalangwa who got 3701 Votes\u00a0 and kiganda ssonko got 1,000. \u00a0 <br><br>The CEC will be joined by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,the NRM National Chairman and First Vice National chairperson, Al hajji Moses Kigongo.<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRM delegates have returned Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga as the First Vice National Chairperson (female)\u00a0 beating her<\/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":[65,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-party-politics"],"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":15251,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/cec-race-among-takes-early-lead-with1525-votes-against-kadagas-65\/","url_meta":{"origin":1693,"position":0},"title":"CEC Race: Among  Wins with 11,680  Votes, Kadaga Gets 905 Votes Threatens To Quit NRM Party","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"August 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Speaker of Parliament Anita Among won the hotly contested CEC position from National Vice Chair (Female) beating her arch rival and veteran woman politician Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga with 11,680 votes. 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