Dr Eunice Opio, the candidate of Uganda People’s Congress -UPC has floured the National Resistance Movement -NRM candidate, Samuel Engola Jr, in the Oyam North parliamentary race to replace killed state minister labour Charles Engola Okello.
Minister Engola was shot dead 28 times on May 2, this year by his bodyguard Pte Wilson Sabiiti at his home in Kyanja, Nakawa Division, in Kampala. The late minister’s son Samuel Engola, was chosen as NRM candidate and he was campaigned for by Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni.
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However, Oyam North voters have refused to drink into the madness that has been in other constituents where sons, daughters of dead legislators have been replacing them. Opio beat Engola Jr with a slight margin while the National Unity Platform -NUP candidate was the last among the four candidates.