City businessman Shukla Mukesh Babubhai insists that he is the right man for Nakawa West Member of Parliament (MP) seat.
About 5 months ago, Mukesh petitioned court seeking nullification of Joel Ssenyonyi’s election as Nakawa West MP, citing election irregularities.
This followed a declaration of Ssenyonyi by the Electoral Commission to have beaten National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) Margret Zziwa, Democratic Party Kenneth Paul Kakande and others to the seat.
However, Mukesh filed the election petition in the Civil Division of the High Court in Kampala.
Court documents indicate that Mukesh was a candidate in the just concluded elections after he was nominated on October 15, 2020, to run for the Nakawa Division West Constituency MP race.
Mukesh contends that EC committed material irregularities when they reduced his votes on the Declaration of Results Forms (DR forms) without justification.
“EC also occasioned irregularities when they accepted DR forms that were not signed or witnessed by the presiding officer and based on the same to declare Ssenyonyi a validly elected MP,” he contends.
The petitioner further faulted EC for declaring Ssenyonyi as the winner of the elections when some DR form sheets were missing.
The businessman says that the EC allowed people, who are not registered voters in Nakawa West to vote during elections.
Mukesh also claims that there was ballot stuffing, which tilted the election in Ssenyonyi’s favour.
The businessman swore an affidavit, claiming that he identified irregularities during elections and lodged a complaint with EC as required by the law before Ssenyonyi was declared the winner but it never responded to it.
“EC never acted on my complaint and went ahead to declare Ssenyonyi instead of resolving the irregularities,” he laments.
Mukesh claims that after announcing election results for the polling station named LC 1 meeting palace (N-Z), the results on the DR form, which were 188 were crossed and reduced to five without countersigning and giving any justification.
The petitioner, therefore, wants the court to issue an order for re-election for the position of MP for Nakawa Division West Constituency.
The matter is currently before court.
But after over 5 months, Mukesh still insists that he is the right man for the job, for the socio-economic transformation of Nakawa West.
“We promote Transparent meritorious green leadership as shumuk group, setting stage for basic residency and academic merit on minimum academics for performance on improved economic standards, cater proactive and progressive representation in Parliament and stop neighbouring unqualified proxy and incompetent leadership,” he says.