Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] party’s Women League chairperson for Northern Uganda Dina Apica Bua is crying after losing to NRM’s Linda Agness Auma in the just concluded Women council election.
Auma, the NRM vice chairperson for Lira district and a former aspirant for Lira district Woman MP Seat in the 2016 parliamentary elections, also a beneficiary of recent new RDC appointees, trounced Dina Bua in an Electoral College voting held at the office of the electoral commission at senior quarters in Lira town on Monday.
Auma polled 11 votes against Dina’s four votes and was declared the chairperson women council Lira district. She will be deputized by Proscovia Ayo Otyek.
However, her rival, Dina Bua while speaking to the journalists said the entire election process was not free and fair much as she conceded defeat.
Bua alleged that Linda Auma hid all the delegates in some district of Eastern Uganda and she traversed the district to disseminate her agenda, further claiming that she could not find delegates to sell her agenda to.
Asked if she intends to petition the electoral commission or to challenge the election outcome in the courts of law, Dina Bua answered in the negative.
Meanwhile, Linda Auma refuted all the claims by Dina Bua that she bought off the delegates.
But, Auma, admits to having had a retreat with her NRM delegates far away from town.
Auma says she did not breach any electoral laws because in an electoral college one has to protect votes.
Linda Auma had also accused Lira district woman MP Joy Atim Ongom of having an invisible hand in the women council election, an allegation trashed by Atim, Lira district Woman MP.
According to Auma, Joy Ongom was secretly backing Dina Bua including financing her activities, a claim we could not independently verify by press time.
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