Detained independent candidate Kassiano Wadri has won the Arua municipality parliamentary seat.
Wadri who was not able to cast his ballot as he's still detained some 200km away in Gulu district beat 11 others, among them, Nusura Tiperu, a member of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party who finished second in the race.
He polled 6,421 while his main challenger Tiperu polled 4,798 votes. Another independent candidate Robert Ejiku had 2,694 and Forum for Democratic Change's (FDC) Bruce Musema had 1,369 votes.
The former Terego county legislator now takes a seat previously occupied by Col Ibrahim Abiriga who was gunned down in June this year.
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