Mr Godfrey Aine Kaguta and Ms Anifa Kawooya were yesterday declared winners of the NRM party flag for Mawogola North and Mawogola West constituencies respectively.
The hotly contested NRM party primary election saw Mr Kaguta, the brother of President Museveni, poll 17,343 votes (46 per cent), to take the party flag for Mawogola North, beating his closest rival Ms Shartsi Musherure Kutesa, the daughter of Foreign Affairs minister, Sam Kuteesa, who came second with 16,104 votes.
Mr Salim Kisekka came third with 4,272 votes (11.3 per cent).
“I, therefore, declare Aine, who has polled the highest number of votes, the flag bearer for the Mawogola constituency,” Mr George William Katokoozi, the NRM registrar, announced at about 8pm to thunderous applause from Mr Kaguta’s supporters.
The three candidates were thereafter called forward and handed their official results.
Mawogola North constituency has 146 villages and five sub-counties while Mawogola West comprises 127 villages and three sub-counties.
Ms Kawooya, the Sembabule Woman MP, on the other hand polled 15,923 votes (54.8 per cent) against Mr Joseph Ssekabiito’s 13,143 votes(45.2 per cent) to hold the party flag for Mawogola West.
Ms Kawooya, who has been Woman MP since 2001, opted to contest for the Mawogola County seat.
Ms Mary Begumisa was declared winner for Sembabule District Woman MP flag, having collected 73,940 votes, beating her rivals Jovanice Tondwiire who garnered 16,448 votes and Phoebe Arinaitwe who received 1,111 votes.