Court has nullified the election of Moses Okia Attan as Soroti city East MP and ordered the electoral commission to conduct fresh elections.
According to Justice Anne Mugenyi, there was noncompliance with the electoral laws after Opiyai and Aloet were taken away from Soroti city East.
The ruling made, Tuesday morning, also confirmed that there was voter disenfranchisement after they were wrongly removed from their constituency to vote in another constituency.
Herbert Edmund Ariko (Independent) was the one challenging the election of Attan (FDC)
Ariko in his argument said that court agreed that the removal of Aloet and Opiyai wards from Soroti city East affected him because that was his stronghold.
He was defeated with 439 votes. Court agreed that disenfranchising over 5000 voters from Opiyai and Aloet affected Ariko’s victory because he could have gotten more than 439 votes.