At the NRM MPs retreat in Kyankwanzi, some establishment lawmakers used the night of February 7 to privately lobby hard for support for their causes.
Before the official opening on Sunday, February 8, according to sources, West Budama-South MP Jacob Oboth Oboth and his West Budama-South counterpart Fox Odoi passionately sold their motion to have Article 80 (h) and (1) of the Constitution amended to allow Independents to contest the party primaries without first resigning their seats as the law provides.
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