{"id":5656,"date":"2022-05-16T16:35:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2022-05-16T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:36:14","slug":"excitement-as-campaigns-for-omoro-county-mp-seat-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/excitement-as-campaigns-for-omoro-county-mp-seat-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCITEMENT AS CAMPAIGNS FOR OMORO COUNTY MP SEAT KICKOFF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was excitement in Omoro County as  campaigns for the MP seat to replace the late speaker Jacob Oulanyah got underway . At least six contestants are vying for the seat including the son of the late Oulanyah , Andrew Ojok Oulanyah who is running on the  NRM ticket .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other candidates are FDC\u2019s Justin Odong,  National Unity Platform\u2019s Tolit Simon Akecha\u00a0, Oscar Kizza of Alliance for National Transformation, Jimmy Walter Onen and Terence\u00a0 Odonga both independents. The campaigns  will run up to \u00a0May 24th ,2022 and the polling will take place on May 26th May 2022, according to the Electoral commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" data-attachment-id=\"5659\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/excitement-as-campaigns-for-omoro-county-mp-seat-kickoff\/img-20220516-wa0183\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG-20220516-WA0183.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1072,712\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG-20220516-WA0183\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG-20220516-WA0183.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG-20220516-WA0183.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG-20220516-WA0183-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG-20220516-WA0183.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG-20220516-WA0183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG-20220516-WA0183.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG-20220516-WA0183.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Andrew Ojok Oulanyah on the campaign trail <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The NRM candidatet, Andrew Ojok Oulanyah launched his village-based campaigns at Te Olam village, Olam Parish in  Odek Sub-county. Ojok will use a door to door campaign strategy to win the hearts of the people ahead of the by-elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ojok has also addressed a series of scientific meetings in the parishes of Olam, Palaro in Odek Sub-county, canvassing votes and asking voters to support the NRM programmes including the Parish Development Model. Oulanya is expected to expected to hold similar gathering in Acet Central Parish, Acet Town Council, and in the parishes of Gem and Minja in Lalogi Sub-county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was excitement in Omoro County as campaigns for the MP seat to replace the late speaker Jacob Oulanyah got<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5658,"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-5656","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\/2022\/05\/IMG-20220516-WA0181.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5641,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/ojok-andrew-oulanyah-nominated-to-run-for-the-omoro-parliamentary-seat\/","url_meta":{"origin":5656,"position":0},"title":"OJOK ANDREW OULANYAH NOMINATED TO RUN FOR THE OMORO PARLIAMENTARY SEAT","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"May 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The race for the Omoro parliamentary seat has begun in earnest after the Electoral Commission closed nominations with the son of the late Speaker Jacob Oulanyah , Ojok Andrew Oulanyah nominated to run on the NRM ticket . 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