{"id":5757,"date":"2022-05-26T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=5757"},"modified":"2022-05-26T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:46:29","slug":"celebrations-as-nrms-ojok-oulanyah-is-headed-for-landslide-win-in-the-omoro-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/celebrations-as-nrms-ojok-oulanyah-is-headed-for-landslide-win-in-the-omoro-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"CELEBRATIONS AS NRM&#8217;S OJOK OULANYAH IS HEADED FOR LANDSLIDE WIN IN THE OMORO BY-ELECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Celebrations are on going as NRM flag bearer Mr.Ojok Andrew Oulanyah is in poll position to win the Omoro by election to replace his father the late Rt Hon Jacob Oulanyah former Speaker of Parilament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Provincial results.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Odek P.7 School; Ojok Andrew Oulanyah NRM 248, Toolit Simon Akecha NUP 43, Odong Justine FDC 02, Kiiza Oscar ANT 03 ; ,AWERE Market. Ojok Andrew Oulanyah NRM 199, Toolit Simon Akecha NUP 56, AWERE P.7 School Ojok Andrew Oulanyah NRM 58 &#8216;Toolit Simon Akecha NUP 40 ;TEE OLAM ;Ojok Andrew Oulanyah NRM 162. Toolit Simon Akecha NUP 19,  Bar paki poling station:\u00a0Ojok Andrew 210 votes .Toolit &#8211; 06 .Odong Justine FDC 04, Osca- 00, Onen jimmy-00,Invalid -07; Mimga  Andrew Ojok 179,Tolit 29, St.Peter Clever Polling Station, Kizza Oscar: 00, Onen Jimmy Walter :01, Odonga Terence:01,Odong Justin:05&#8217; Toolit Simon Akecha: 07, Ojok Andrew Oulanya:93 .,invalid Votes:03 ;Lakim poling station: Ojok-152,Tolit-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The by-election in Omoro constituency Member of Parliament has been fraught with allegations of bribing voters by the different political parties.\u00a0 The election has also attracted observers from local development partners who have deployed a team of 8 persons on ground in Omoro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The father of the late former Speaker of Parliament, Nathan Okori  blessed his grandson, Andrew Ojok Oulanyah ahead of the Omoro County by-election. Flanked by his sister Diana Acheng, Ojok knelt down as his granddad blessed him .\u201cI am blessing you so that you become a Member of Parliament and serve your people like your father,\u201d Mzee Okori said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-attachment-id=\"5759\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/celebrations-as-nrms-ojok-oulanyah-is-headed-for-landslide-win-in-the-omoro-by-election\/mze-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mze.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1080,720\" 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=\"mze\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mze.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mze.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mze-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mze.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mze.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mze.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mze.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations are on going as NRM flag bearer Mr.Ojok Andrew Oulanyah is in poll position to win the Omoro by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5758,"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":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ojok.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":5757,"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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