People Power Movement candidate Welunga Yusuf is the new Islamic University In Uganda [IUIU] Guild President following a landslide victory.
The Saturday election held at Sumaya Hall also saw Nakibule Fatumah win the Vice Presidency at the IUIU Main Campus.
Welunga, a second-year law student faced off with Mohamed Abdul Aziz, another second year Social Sciences student for the presidency.
The university electoral commission chairman, Kasango Gava, declared Welunga winner after polling 1,277 votes [68.4%] as opposed to Aziz’s 589 votes [31.6%].
Fatumah, on her part, secured 509 votes beating Halimah with 411 votes.
Meanwhile, police fired teargas and live bullets as the students burst in celebrations chanting the People power slogan following Welunga’s victory.
The guild polls were highly contested with allegations of vote rigging from each camp. In other polls Fatimah Nakibuule, a second-year student of Education was voted second IUIU first lady with 509 votes against 411 votes managed by her rival, of Halima Ahmed Hassan, a student of Statistics.
The IUIU security officer, Ratib Juma said police used tear gas and bullets to disperse the students so to stop them from ‘suffocating’ the guild president-elect. He said following Weluga’s victory, happy students swarmed onto him with everyone trying to hug him hence denying him any breathing space.
According to some of the students, the election pitted Ugandan students against their colleagues from Somalia, who they accused of dominating the student leadership for a very long time.
