By Derrick Wadria
After declaring Julius Bukyana as the 2017-2018 Nkumba University Guild President, his fellow guild aspirants posed a petitioned to him and the Electoral Commission that he was not validly nominated.
The elections that were not braced by the students following the mistrust they had in the former guild president henry Byansi of misappropriating guild funds testified Bukyana (Independent) as the winner with 228 votes followed by Jackeline Nakaga (FDC) 144, Trevas Anyama (Independent) 90 Yusuf Niwamanya (NRM) and Julius Tumukunde (DP) 9.
Students say they now have no reason to why they should be voting people who will not serve rather feed their interests.
“We were seriously depressed by what the former government showed and now students lost hope in the leaders. That’s why the numbers of voters have greatly decreased compared to who voted last year,” said Rukundo a student.
More than 400 students voted for Byansi last year and not more than 510 voted this year implying that interest has gone varnishing.
Nakaga, Anyama and Tumukunde after losing the race would not hold it back but instead turned their pens on paper to write a petition against Bukyana the president-elect.
In their petition, they wrote that Bukyana was not validly nominated and elected for the post of the guild president since at the relevant time he was in his second academic year 1st semester which they say it is against the guild constitution.
The grounds on which the petition is based on, they say that the president-elect lacked minimum formal requirements of being left with one academic year to complete a course of study henceforth he does not qualify.
But yesterday all chaos at campus were cleared when the electoral commission wrote to the petitioners and the president-elect that Bukyana was dually vetted, nominated and declared a president-elect on 1st April by the Nkumba University Electoral Commission chairperson Paul Munyagwa.
Munyagwa said that the petitioners did not fully address their minds to search highly judicially regarded authorities before challenging Bukyana’s qualification without regard to articles 8(4)b,5(1).(2) of the Nkumba guild constitution.
“I, therefore, urge the petitioners to be estopped from challenging the victory of Julius Bukyana since they never challenged it from the beginning,” said Munyagwa.
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