According to Dr. Ayume, his decision to contest for the Koboko Municipality parliamentary seat, has been influenced by his desire to empower youth and women and residents through providing educational opportunities once elected.
The Investment State Minister, Municipality
Evelyn Anite is facing stiff competition for the Koboko municipal
parliamentary NRM party ticket from Dr. Charles Ayume, the son of the late
Speaker, Francis Ayume.
Dr. Charles Ayume, who has been working with
the State House Health Monitoring Team for the last 16 years, has resigned his
job to vie for the NRM party ticket.
According to Dr. Ayume,
his decision to contest for the Koboko Municipality parliamentary seat, has been
influenced by his desire to empower youth and women and residents through
providing educational opportunities once elected.
He says president, Yoweri Museveni and elders in the
municipality have okayed his candidature because they want change in the municipal
leadership.
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The entrance of Dr. Charles Ayume into
the political arena has piled pressure on Anite and split NRM voters.
Some of
the voters look at Ayume as the true replacement of his father who served as
speaker in the late 1990s.
However, some voters say Anite fought to bring
municipal status for the tinny border town of Koboko, which suffered
massive destruction during the 1979 insurgency.
Anite contends
that her achievements for Koboko Municipality in the last five years
speak loud for her politically.
She also boasts of being the first MP in
the entire West Nile region to accomplish all that she promised her
electorate.
Candia Stephen
Freelancer