There was celebration and ululations last night at Makerere University after Jackson Twijukye, a little known 5th year Veterinary Medicine student beat all odds to win the post of Electoral Commission Chairman at Makerere beating Elvis Omoit, the Chairman of Lumumba Hall.
Our snoops at the voting say the humble student has been barely a leader at the institution and was as broke as a church mouse, moving into the elections. His rival on the other hand, allegedly received over 60M from Gen Saleh in the Lumumba Hall compensations from last semester’s strike and was giving every voter at least 200K to secure their vote.
The voting happened ahead of this year’s guild election campaigns expected to run through February and March. The votes were cast by members of the Makerere University Guild Representative Council (GRC) and Omoit reportedly lost by 6 votes, quite a landslide for a college vote.
“Twijukye is an Independent Candidate, he is not for the NRM. Those that are calling him NRM are just sore losers who thought they’re entitled to every win. As a matter of fact, Elvis Omoit put in more money than him. Twijukye was broke, he won because he had associated with the voters more closely. Is there a broke NRM candidate?’ Alvin Mutambi, an onlooker told Campus Bee.
The EC is constitutionally mandated to organise elections at first, the guild president level and later the Guild Representative Councillors (GRCs) from Schools of study and Halls of residence across Makerere University.
The other commissioners that won in their respective positions were Lilian Atukwaase as Vice Chair, Heritier Mufano as the General Secretary, Huzaifa Lule as the Finance Secretary and Rodney Kigundu the Public Relations Officer (PRO).
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