Kadaga congratulates Jacob Oulanyah on becoming 11th Parliament Speaker

Two-term speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has congratulated her successor Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah who beat her in the May 24 election.

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Kadaga had defied her ruling NRM party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) decision to back Oulanyah.

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Some politicians and commentators had urged her to accept NRM CEC ruling but she chose defiance.

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But immediately Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo declared Oulanyah winner, Kadaga, flanked by Dokolo Woman MP Cecilia Ogwal, congratulated her successor and wished him well.