The Uganda People’s Congress election for the party president and village structures on Thursday witnessed the lowest voter turn-up in Lira City.The Obote’s party, currently governed by his son Jimmy James Michael Akena as the president, had set Thursday 12th June 2026 as the polling day for the party president and the village structures.Lira City East MP Akena was tussling it out with Adim Enap Denis to his seat at the Uganda House as the President for the next five years. Yet in a strange twist of events, the party that had claimed to be having massive support in Lango with Lira city being their base, had only very few members participating in the exercise.For example in a parish/ward initially having 500 registered members of the party as per the 2020 voters register, less than 30 people turned-up to vote. Another scenario happened in Bazar Ward, where about 300 people registered in 2020 yet less than 20 had turned up for voting at the time of filing this story.In most polling stations in the Wards, the electoral officials were seen yawning and chewing the cud without a member approaching them to check the name for voting.The worst situation was in Ireda East Ward, where Museveni’s NRM is strongest. Electoral official arrived at St. Peters Church of Uganda with the voting materials as early as 7am, but she hadn’t realized even a single voter at the time of filing this story.In a bid to try to manage the shame and do some cover up, the electoral officials concocted figures and resorted to merely allocating votes to the candidates, purporting these to be validly cast votes.The same tactic was applied in other Wards within Lira City, where members didn’t show up for voting.Jimmy Akena Obote and wife Amongi Ongom’s lies that Lira City is full of UPC supporters has finally been put to test and significantly exposed by Thursday’s poor voter turnout.Shunning the UPC elections also stands to be a true testament that the people of Lira City are gradually losing appetite for the late Obote’s party following the serious political wave of the NRM brought in through the 2021 polling.Faking figures has been the order of the day in most of the polling stations in Wards within both Lira City East and West divisions, where our scouts visited. This is a remarkable twist of events which has surely disapproved the claims by Akena and Amongi that the Lira is a UPC base.In other words, the UPCs held a high-level political drama, full of inflation of the voter’s numbers. Unlike the NRM elections whereby people thronged the village polling stations in big numbers to vote and take up positions of leadership, UPC has greatly been demistified through the Thursday events.