{"id":54706,"date":"2022-03-22T13:19:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=54706"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:23:14","slug":"nrm-has-no-vacancy-for-deputy-speaker-says-tanga-odoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/nrm-has-no-vacancy-for-deputy-speaker-says-tanga-odoi\/","title":{"rendered":"NRM has no vacancy for deputy speaker, says Tanga Odoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/franklin-draku-2014904\">Franklin Draku<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has no vacancy for the position of a deputy speaker, according to its electoral commission.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists on Tuesday, the NRM electoral commission chairperson Dr Tanga Odoi emphasized \u201cthat the party will not conduct any nominations for the position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not have vacancy for the deputy speaker. We only have a vacancy for the speaker,\u201d he said hours after a number of NRM parliamentarians had already started jostling for the position.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert Tom Kinobere, the NRM parliamentary caucus vice chairperson had earlier on told this reporter that Anita Among will be presented as the party\u2019s choice for speakership while Thomas Tayebwa will deputize her.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/nrm-has-no-vacancy-for-deputy-speaker-says-tanga-odoi-3756070\">https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/nrm-has-no-vacancy-for-deputy-speaker-says-tanga-odoi-3756070<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Franklin Draku The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has no vacancy for the position of a deputy speaker, according to its electoral commission. Addressing journalists on Tuesday, the NRM electoral commission chairperson Dr Tanga Odoi emphasized \u201cthat the party will not conduct any nominations for the position.\u201d \u201cWe do not have vacancy for the deputy speaker. We only have a vacancy for the speaker,\u201d he said hours after a number of NRM parliamentarians had already started jostling for the position. Herbert Tom Kinobere, the NRM parliamentary caucus vice chairperson had earlier on told this reporter that Anita Among will be presented as the party\u2019s choice for speakership while Thomas Tayebwa will deputize her. Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/nrm-has-no-vacancy-for-deputy-speaker-says-tanga-odoi-3756070<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":54707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54706","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\/54706"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}