Butambala County parliamentary by election nominations starts on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

The electoral commission is done with updating the voter’s registers and the registers are being displayed in the constituency to remove the names of the dead or people who shifted from Butambala.

The Butambala district returning officer, Mark Muganzi is in charge of manning this by election exercise.

Muganzi says that the commission will nominate Democratic Party’s Muwanga Kivumbi, independent’s Faridah Nakiboneka, Uganda Federal Alliance’s Tomusange Batemyeto, Forum for Democratic Change’s Shalif Ssentongo, National Resistance Movement’s Faisal Kikulukunyu  and Farouk Walungama, a journalist with radio Bilaali.

The seat fell vacant after the High Court in Kampala nullified the election of Faisal Kikulukunyu over voter bribery.

Kikulukunyu was jointly sued with the Electoral Commission. Kivumbi accused the electoral commission of having failed to restrain Kikulukunyu from bribing voters during the campaign period leading up to the February 18th general parliamentary elections. The main factors all candidates claim to have is having the support of Kabaka and being Muslims.

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