Kyambogo University students went to the polls on 9th March 2022. The hotly contested polls had many students believing that the National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate, Mandu Mandwa had higher chances of winning the election due to the current NUP wave that had swept through many top Universities like Makerere and Mbarara University of Science and Technology plus other tertiary institutions.
All hopes were overturned however as the counting of the votes started where FDC’s Tumwine Serge dominated various polling stations while Mandwa came second. The FDC camp was thrown into jubilant moods as the campus got awash with their impending victory. The University’s electoral commission later declared Tumwine Serge, an old boy of Ntare School, as Kyambogo’s guild president for 2022-2023.
Mandwa’s camp was struck with the news of Serge’s win and all his agents could be seen walking with their heads low, perhaps contemplating why they had lost.
Although many people tag Serge’s win to the confusion that was exhibited in the NUP camp, Serge’s supporters believe that their candidate’s landslide victory proves that he was going to win the polls no matter what.
Despite the loss, Mandwa took to his socials to declare his acceptance of defeat—something that few candidates had done in the long run of Kyambogo Universities elections. In his letter to the students fraternity, Mandwa congratulated Tumwine Serge and promised to continue working hard since he believes that for students ‘to be heard, they must be hard.’
Although in a different tweet, Madwa says that “we were in an election where forces of the state, management, incumbent plus the electoral commission were against us.”
FDC’s Tumwine Serge brings a victory that the party had last had at the University in 2017 with Amanya Germany. NUP had since taken over with the emergence of Tundulu Jonathan and later Mbaziira John.
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