KAMPALA, UGANDA: H.E Carter Jorine Karyn has been elected the sixth Guild President of Victoria University after defeating four other contestants in the guild elections held on Thursday, January 12th at the university main campus in Kampala.
Ms Carter was declared winner of the elections by the University Dean of Students, Mrs Winfred Nassiwa after she obtained the highest percentage of votes in the two-day virtual elections conducted via VU’s high-tech voting system.
The statement of results released indicated that Carter got 914 votes (47.5%), while her closest rival, Nakibinge Samuel garnered 528 (27.4%). Others in the race included Etomet Gilbert 194 (10.1%), Rwothomio Denis 150 (7.8%), and Eugan Serebe got 138 votes (7.2%).
”Today, Ms Carter Jorine Karyn has been declared the overall winner of the heated students’ guild elections for the year 2023-2024 as the Guild President-Elect of Victoria University with 914 votes accounting for 47.5% of the total votes cast,” Mrs Nassiwa declared in a Friday statement.
”As University, we congratulate all the guild candidates who participated in the race and the whole students’ body for exercising the right to vote,” she added.
Following her victory, Cater, the newly elected guild president penned down a heartful speech where she thanked the Almighty God for reaching the remarkable milestone in her leadership career.
“First and foremost, I would like to thank the Almighty God for this opportunity he has given me to choose me among the many candidates that contested to represent and lead the gallant Victorians,” she said, adding; “Leadership comes from God, and there is no doubt the Almighty has bestowed this position on me.”
“I would like to congratulate them for taking their chance and believing in limitless to come for this mighty battle of Guild presidency that I have won today. Thank you so much, my opponents, for not giving up, and I congratulate you on this race. You and I have learned a lot, and we have made a lot of friendships we could have never made if it wasn’t for our candidature.”
She pledged to have an organized, up-shifted, uncompressed, managerial, authentic leadership, dedicated service, and practical solutions to student issues.
Prof. Lawrence Muganga the University Vice Chancellor last year described the electronic voting system as a great milestone; ‘’For the first time in the history of higher education in this country, we have been able to use an electronic voting system and the contenders were able to count their votes in real-time. They were able to tell whether winning or losing in real time.’’
Muganda noted then that the system makes work easy not only for the electoral commission but also for the candidates who will be in their sitting rooms monitoring the numbers of votes and percentages they have scored.
‘’That is the technology we are championing on top of the level of transparency exhibited. We are very proud of this technology,’’ said Muganga before he urged other academic institutions and Uganda’s electoral commission to pick a leaf.
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