{"id":22569,"date":"2016-05-27T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=22569"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:10:40","slug":"upcs-akena-scoffs-at-otunnus-resignation-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/upcs-akena-scoffs-at-otunnus-resignation-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"UPC&#8217;s Akena scoffs at Otunnu&#8217;s resignation statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uganda People\u2019s Congress party faction of Jimmy Akena has scoffed at Olara Otunnu\u2019s statement he made yesterday that he has resigned from being the party president.<\/p>\n<p>Akena says Otunnu\u2019s term in office expired way back in May 2015 and the party in the same year elected new leadership.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22570\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jimmy-akena.jpg\" alt=\"jimmy akena\" width=\"595\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jimmy-akena.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jimmy-akena-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Akena notes that according to the party\u2019s constitution Otunnu is no longer considered as party president.<\/p>\n<p>He has appealed to Otunnu and his faction to put the drama aside and join them in rebuilding the party\u2019s strength.<\/p>\n<p>Otunnu yesterday said his term as the party president expires on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of July 2015 and that the party had to elect another party president. He then handed over Power to his Vice president Joseph Bossa<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uganda People\u2019s Congress party faction of Jimmy Akena has scoffed at Olara Otunnu\u2019s statement he made yesterday that he has resigned from being the party president. Akena says Otunnu\u2019s term in office expired way back in May 2015 and the party in the same year elected new leadership. Akena notes that according to the party\u2019s constitution Otunnu is no longer considered as party president. He has appealed to Otunnu and his faction to put the drama aside and join them in rebuilding the party\u2019s strength. Otunnu yesterday said his term as the party president expires on the 1st of July 2015 and that the party had to elect another party president. He then handed over Power to his Vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}