Independent candidate for Omoro Woman Member of Parliament seat has quit the race after she was promised a job in government.
\nGrace Atim has told journalists in Gulu that after meeting President Museveni at Statehouse Entebbe last week, she was advised to quit and rally her support to NRM\u2019s Catherine Lamwaka.
\nThis has been confirmed by the NRM district Spokesperson, Opio Ateker who says he is waiting for official communication from Atim indicating that she has stepped
\ndown for Lamwaka.
\nOmoro District Registrar Denis Obong also confirms receiving a letter dated Aug, 6th, 2016.
\nAtim, a teacher by profession contested for the Omoro County MP seat in NRM primaries,\u00a0but lost to Francis Obutu.
\nShe was later nominated for the Omoro Woman MP race as an independent candidate, after\u00a0\u00a0she accused NRM officials in the region of handpicking\u00a0 Lamwaka to run for\u00a0 Omoro seat without organizing party primaries.<\/p>\n
Elections for District LCV, Woman MP and councillors are set for August, 29th 2016.<\/p>\n
Story By CiSSY Makumbi<\/p>\n
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Independent candidate for Omoro Woman Member of Parliament seat has quit the race after she was promised a job in government. Grace Atim has told journalists in Gulu that after meeting President Museveni at Statehouse Entebbe last week, she was advised to quit and rally her support to NRM\u2019s Catherine Lamwaka. This has been confirmed by the NRM district Spokesperson, Opio Ateker who says he is waiting for official communication from Atim indicating that she has stepped down for Lamwaka. Omoro District Registrar Denis Obong also confirms receiving a letter dated Aug, 6th, 2016. Atim, a teacher by profession contested for the Omoro County MP seat in NRM primaries,\u00a0but lost to Francis Obutu. She was later nominated for the Omoro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23087,"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-23049","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\/23049"}],"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=23049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}