Former Makerere University Guild President Anne Adeke Ebaju who was elected to parliament early this week as the female youth representative, will live to recall the voting exercise in Hoima district.
The Opposition Forum for Democratic Change candidate trounced her strongest contender Ann Ruyondo of the National Resistance 128 votes to 119.
Her election came as a relief to the strongest opposition party which had previously lost all the other regional youth parliamentary slots to the ruling NRM.
Commenting on her victory on Friday, Adeke described the Monday polling exercise as the most tense she had ever seen.
“The amount of deployment by ISO and state operatives outnumbered the number of voters,” she said. “Money was literally chasing after voters begging them to take it.”
The 24 year old aspiring lawyer was not nonetheless full of gratitude; “But in the midst of all this; we were celebrating the gift of friendship and family which our voters had given us during our three month country wide tour.”
She added, “The decision they made at the ballot box to vote for one Adeke Anna Ebaju was one of the toughest and sane.”
Adeke is replacing the NRM’s Monica Amoding who also hails from Teso sub-region and now the direct women representative for Kumi district.