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WADRI MAYI DELIVERS AGAIN, BRINGS IN 122 MORE MOBILIZERS TO THE JACKSON ATIMA CAMPAIGN
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU
ARUA: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2025
Having led a group of over 80 defectors from a splinter National Resistance Movement Group that supported the defeated contestant in the NRM primary elections, Ronald Debo, to join the camp of the incumbent Member of Parliament Jackson Atima on December 15, 2025, Wadri Mayi has delivered again.
Mayi, a former apparels dealer and NRM cadre was Debo’s campaign manager during the primary election campaigns.
She joined Atima and the NRM mobilization team to campaign for flag bearers in line with party principles while Debo veered off script to contest as independent candidate in the parliamentary election.
Meanwhile Mayi, after pondering for some time joined Atima and has since been appointed the coordinator for the Patriotic League of Uganda, a pressure group under the chairmanship of Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Chief of Defence Forces of the Uganda.
On Saturday, she brought 122 more people, majority of whom said they were from the splinter camp of Debo and two others from the opposition Forum for Democratic Change.
“My message has always been clear that after primary elections, all party members should follow the flag wherever the flag has gone. I stand by that principle,” Mayi told the people.
Atima, after meeting the group at Rocks and Roots hotel in Arua City, promptly commissioned them to mobilize votes for himself and President Yoweri Museveni.
They were instructed to move door-to-door in hunting for their colleagues still in the opposition camps and in the independent’s camps.
Atima charged his group of new mobilizers to reduce the potential vote of the various opposition groups by 15,000 (10,000 women and 5,000 youths) in order to deliver a landslide of a victory for the NRM.
Other candidates in the race against Atima are Muzaidi Khemis of the FDC, Kassiano Wadri of the Alliance for National Transformation, Hadad Salim, an independent candidate and Jackson Obindu of the National Unity Platform.
Hajjat Medina Naham Ojale, the NRM director for Finance who met the first wave of defectors at Arua Core PTC play grounds in Mvara on two weeks ago is expected in the city anytime to meet the new converts.
Atima thanked the people for overcoming political propaganda by different opponents and coming ‘home.’
“I worked with some of you during the by-election campaigns and I worked with some of you during the 2021 election campaign. But for different reasons many of you had gone elsewhere. I am glad that today you have all come back through Mayi. Continue with this spirit and let us grow the NRM family,” Atima counselled.
He emphasized that Arua Central Division is a cosmopolitan constituency that must be led by a unifying leader without tribal and religious bias.
Atima asked the people of Arua central Division to elect for him a Mayor who is willing to work for the people without greed and corruption.
Victor Lomori Vidal, the Arua Central Division Deputy Speaker, asked the people of Arua central division not to allow candidates to play with their minds with false claims that they are standing for the locals.
“What is this thing called for the locals when you were given work as Mayor and the city is very dirty? What is for the locals when the city council passed resolution to dismantle Lobidra and Owino markets and you never protected the vendors?” he questioned.
