Andrew Ojok Oulanyah the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party candidate has been declared the winner of the Omoro County Member of Parliament by-elections.
He replaces his father Jacob Oulanyah also former Speaker of Parliament who died in March in Seattle in the USA.
The Omoro district returning officer Moses Kagona declared Ojok the winner of the elections from Lalogi Sub County headquarters after garnering 14,224 of the total votes cast defeating his closest rival Simon Toolit Akecha of National Unity Platform-NUP who got 633 votes.
Terence Odonga, an independent candidate came third with 532 votes followed by Justine Odong Obiya of Forum for Democratic Change who scored 529 votes.
Others are Jimmy Odong Onen, an independent candidate who scored 88 votes, and Oscar Kizza of the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party with 63 votes.
17,454 voters participated in the elections out of the 38,638 from the 84 polling stations. A total of ten votes were spoiled. Ojok says that he will work towards developing the people of Omoro as it was his father`s wish.
