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THIS WEEK: EC responds to Achola’s court petition challenging disqualification
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Catherine Achola the former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Party candidate for Pallisa district woman MP seat on June19 petitioned the civil division of the high court challenging her disqualification from the race by the Electoral Commission (EC) over changed names.
In his response to the case on June25, the EC Chairman, Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi, said the candidate did not provide the Electoral Commission with any evidence indicating that there was compliance with the law when she adopted the said names during the national identity card enrollment exercise in 2015.
While her academic papers bear the names Catherine Achola, her national Identity Card bears Achola Catherine Osupelem who according to the EC could be a different person.
However, when Achola was disqualified, her competitor of the ruling National Resistance Movement Party Faith Alupo was declared MP unopposed something that FDC is now challenging in court.
