The National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate Shamim Nambasa has been declared as the winner of the University’s guild elections that took place yesterday.
Nambasa beat nine other candidates enroute to victory.
She was the only female candidate in the race but this didn’t stop her from becoming the Institution’s 87th guild president.
Nambasa polled 5610 votes a percentage equivalent to 54.161
On being declared the winner, Nambasa had the entire NUP fraternity and fellow students to thank for this feat.
“I thank all the students for voting wisely. They chose the right leader,” Nambasa said.
This saw her party president Hon robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine also take to his social media handles to congratulate the entire University for roaring loudly to the regime.
Obeid Yahayaa Kamulegeya of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) who was her closest rival got 1,548 votes, representing 14.945 percent.
The other candidates polled as follows:
Silve Bukala (NRM) 649 votes.
Ronald Mutsinzi (Independent) got 1,187
Agrippa Byayesu. (Independent) got 697
Moses Tumusiime- 145 votes.
John Mwase (117 votes).
Martin Tumuhaise (117 votes).
Sam Ayeyo (70 votes).
Victor Omega (32 votes).
Nambasa becomes the 5th female MUK Guild president with the last having been FDC’s current Soroti woman mp
Anna Adeke Ebaju in 2013/14.
