The vice chancellor of Makerere University, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe has intervened in the ongoing guild presidential campaigns and slapped a postponement order for the election that was to happen on Friday 2nd March, 2018.
In a letter dated 1st March that Campus Bee has attained, the vice chancellor stresses the absence of adequate preparations on the part of the Electoral Commission to manage the voting process that was hitherto supposed to take place tomorrow.
“It has come to the attention of the university management that, while the guild elections were scheduled to take place tomorrow, 2nd March, 2018, the process of putting in place all the necessary requirements for the elections has not been finalised” the letter from the vice chancellor reads in part.
He goes on to cite the unpreparedness expressed by the Electoral Commission to an extent that on a day before the elections, polling officers and agents of various candidates had not been clarified.
We were unable to access the E.C chairman for a statement, but undisclosed sources within the commission said the university is buying time to verify afresh all the candidates since it has been discovered that most of them lack the basic requirements to contest for the said office.
This comes at a time when guild presidential hopeful and Lumumba hall resident Bruno Bayube was disqualified just two days to voting on grounds that he had some retakes.
Similar sources have disclosed that the Electoral Commission itself has had non-students functioning as commissioners in the said body when the guild constitution clearly stipulates that to be part of the E.C, one needs to be a fully registered student of the university.
The postponement of the election also affects the elections attached to the above like the Guild Representative Council (GRC) elections, Hall SCR elections and College/School elections altogether.
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