BY OKIDI PATRICK
AGAGO, UGANDA — The race for the Agago District Speakership has taken a dramatic turn after Hon. Ivan Odongpiny, the LC V Councillor for Kalongo Town Council, secured a landslide victory in the National Resistance Movement (NRM) caucus elections.
Odongpiny won the former Speaker, Hon. Samuel Kitang Ojok (LC V Councilor for Lira Palwo Sub-County), scoring a decisive 24 votes against Kitang’s 10 votes during the high-stakes internal party election.
Caucus Consensus Engineered Win:
The absolute dominance of Odongpiny follows a series of intense political negotiations and tactical endorsements brokered during the Agago District NRM caucus meetings held in Kalongo Town Council.
In a strategic move to consolidate Agago’s voting block, three high-profile contenders voluntarily withdrew from the primary race and threw their weight behind Ivan Odongpiny. The Hon Councilors who stepped aside to pave the way for his flagbearer status include:
- Hon. Stanley Odong (LC V Councillor, Wol Sub-County)
- Hon. Alexander Okidi (LC V Councillor, Lira Kato Sub-County)
- Hon. Mathew Obol (LC V Councillor, Lapono Sub-County) who is yet undecided up to the time of compiling this story.
The Final Two-Way Battle on Friday 22nd, May 2026 is likely to take a new twist.
With the internal NRM primary concluded, Hon Odongpiny officially becomes the ruling party’s undisputed flagbearer for the general district speakership election scheduled for Friday, May 22, 2026.
However, his path to the speaker’s chambers will not be completely unopposed. Despite stepping down during the internal NRM caucus sessions, Hon. Mathew Obol of Lapono Sub-County has confirmed that he will still challenge the NRM flagbearer by running as an Independent. Obol announced his intentions to bypass party structures and run as an Independent candidate
Aome political analysts in Agago displtrict state that the race has now narrowed down to a fierce, direct two-way battle between the newly minted NRM flagbearer Ivan Odongpiny and the independent challenger Mathews Obol, as district councillors prepare for their final voting, tomorrow.
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