The National Unity Platform(NUP) has put its weight behind another opposition candidate in the Soroti City East Parliamentary By-election.
The biggest opposition in Parliament has confirmed that they will not front a candidate but instead endorse the Forum for Democratic Change(FDC) contestant, Moses Attan.
Attan won the elections during the 2021 general polls but recently lost an election petition at the Court of Appeal.
In May 2022, the Court ruled that the Electoral Commission failed to conduct free and fair elections after it irregularly transferred Opiyai and Aloet wards from Soroti East to Soroti West after the nomination of the candidates, which disfranchised over 4,560 voters.
David Lewis Rubonogaya, the NUP Secretary-General says they will support Attan to reclaim his seat as a show of unity in the opposition circles.
The NUP party leadership has however asked the FDC to support NUP candidates in Gogonyo County and Busongora South; all of which fell vacant after their former MPs’ victories were nullified by the Court of Appeal.
In the 2021 general elections, Attan defeated Herbert Edmond Ariko, a former FDC member who stood as an independent with 7,606 votes against 7,167. NUP candidate Emachu Arnold managed only 86 votes.
