{"id":29640,"date":"2022-03-23T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=29640"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T08:39:13","slug":"minister-aceng-bows-out-of-speakership-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/minister-aceng-bows-out-of-speakership-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Aceng Bows Out Of Speakership Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister of Health, Hon Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero has withdrawn her expression of interest from the speakership race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve taken a decision to withdraw my intention to stand for the Position of Speaker of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">@Parliament_Ug. I have not had enough time to consult my party leadership, colleagues and family,\u201d said Aceng in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should be noted that as of yesterday, NRM had received 13 candidates who are willing to replace speaker Jacob Oulanyah who died on Sunday last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NRM candidates include; Deputy Attorney General Jackson Kafuuzi, Tororo Woman MP Sarah Opendi , Arua Central MP Jackson Atima, Dokolo South County MP Felix Okot, Lwemiyaga County MP Theodre Ssekikubo, West Budama South MP Jacob Oboth-Oboth, State minister for Sports, Denis Hamson Obua, Masindi District Woman MP Florence Akiiki Asiimwe and John Okot Amos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NRM top organ the Central Executive Committee (CEC) is yet to decide on who they will front as next speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Below is Hon Jane Ruth Aceng\u2019s Withdraw letter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tamajuz-592x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tamajuz-592x1024.jpg 592w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tamajuz-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tamajuz-768x1328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tamajuz-888x1536.jpg 888w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tamajuz-360x623.jpg 360w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tamajuz.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Health, Hon Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero has withdrawn her expression of interest from the speakership race. \u201cI\u2019ve taken a decision to withdraw my intention to stand for the Position of Speaker of @Parliament_Ug. I have not had enough time to consult my party leadership, colleagues and family,\u201d said Aceng in a tweet. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":19683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[719,31,119],"class_list":["post-29640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dr-jane-ruth-aceng","tag-featured","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29643,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29640\/revisions\/29643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}