Grace Asiimwe, the Bundibugyo Resident District Commissioner and Chairperson of the COVID-19 Response Taskforce confirmed the development to URN on Wednesday night, saying they were yet to decide their next course of action.
Mutegeki defeated his closest rival Robert Tibamwenda with 53, 000 votes against Tibamwenda's38,789 according to results released on Friday night at the RDC's premises in Bundibugyo town.
In Bundibugyo, a number polling stations visited by URN reporter earlier on Friday had by 11:30am not started work as only polling officials had turned up, with a curious voters looking on from a distance.
The Resident District Commission Grace Asiimwe says that they resolved to halt the exercise after realizing that supporters of various candidates especially for Bughendera County had started threatening the electoral officials and their opponents.
The locals who had participated in the NRM primary elections were demanding to get all sub-county results from the presiding officers to enable them to understand the results between the Bughendera county incumbent Christopher Kibanzanga and his rival Acrobert Kiiza Moses.
The Minister’s convoy drove out of the venue moments later with some of the voters following in hot pursuit. It took the minister’s security detail to shoot in the air to disperse the mammoth crowd.
At polling station visited by URN there was no observance of social distancing, wearing of masks and most lacked hand washing facilities and sanitizers.
The clashes were sparked off by the declaration of the National Resistance Movement NRM party candidate Ronald Mutegeki as the winner of a hotly contested LCV chairmans race between him and independent candidate Jolly Tibamanya.
