By Reuben Olita
Former Busia Woman Representative Florence Mutua and former Governor H.E Sospeter Ojaamong declared on Friday that they will no longer support seeking elective positions through parties but on individual basis.
Addressing mourners during the burial of Mzee Ayub Nyongesa Odikor, 96, at Kooli village, in Amagoro, Teso North Sub-County, the two leaders took a swipe at the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) for failing them.
” ODM has lost us. Mutua and I singlehandedly brought the party here. We should discourage nominating people through parties, but it should be done on an individual basis,” Ojaamong said.
Mutua, on her part, said she would not support the party but an individual who is going to work with you.
She recalled how the ODM party duped her into vying for the governorship in 2022 elections, which she lost to incumbent Dr. Paul Otuoma in the primaries.
” This was a big betrayal because I left my seat, which I would have defended successfully,” Mutua remembered with nostalgia.
To confirm her desire to remain relevant politically, Mutua announced she would contest the Woman Representative seat against incumbent Catherine Omanyo.
“I might as well form a party like Mama Ni Mmoja that would catapult me back to the National Assembly to assist county residents,” she noted.
She told Katakwa ACK Diocese Bishop John Okude that she would come and seek his blessings before traversing the county on a meet the people tours.
