As the general 2026/2031 elections on the door, Nation Unity Platform unveil a Woman Bukedea Woman MP candidate to battle Speaker of Parliament Anita Among.
Anita Among using the Electoral Commission and the Courts recently had the @NUP_Ugcandidate, the FDC candidate and an independent candidate removed from the Voters’ Register in order to block them from running against her in Bukedea. None of those candidates were ever invited for any tribunal hearing until they were informed that the Parish Tribunal had decided to remove them from the register! While we filed a court case which is still ongoing, we have this morning unveiled comrade Asio Florence as the National Unity Platform candidate for Bukedea Woman MP. We hope that Among will not shamelessly seek to block her as well. The people of Bukedea now have an opportunity to choose between an internationally sanctioned thief of public funds and a young vibrant leader who will speak for them.
The National Unity Platform (NUP) has unveiled Florence Asio as its new candidate for the Bukedea Woman MP seat, setting the stage for a renewed showdown with Speaker of Parliament Anita Among, who was until recently expected to go unopposed after her rivals were controversially deleted from the voters’ register.
NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, announced Asio’s candidature on Monday, accusing the Electoral Commission (EC) and courts of being used to “sideline” three other women who had expressed interest in contesting against Among.
“Anita Among, using the Electoral Commission and the courts, recently had the NUP candidate, the FDC candidate, and an independent candidate removed from the Voters’ Register in order to block them from running against her in Bukedea,” Kyagulanyi said in a statement.
“None of those candidates were ever invited for any tribunal hearing until they were informed that the Parish Tribunal had decided to remove them from the register.”
The deletions, which affected Mercy Marion Alupo (NUP), Norma Susan Otai (FDC), and Hellen Akol Odeke (Independent), initially left Among without a challenger, prompting outrage among opposition supporters and residents of Bukedea.