{"id":41490,"date":"2023-03-19T18:01:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T18:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/swapo-retains-okaku"},"modified":"2023-03-19T18:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T18:29:30","slug":"swapo-retains-okaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/swapo-retains-okaku","title":{"rendered":"Swapo retains Okaku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>SWAPO has retained the Okaku constituency in the Oshana region.<\/p>\n<p>Party candidate David Fillipus won the by-election held on Friday with 3 195 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Sakaria Jakop of the Independent Patriots for Change garnered 852 votes, Jason Haufiku of the Popular Democratic Movement 122, and Tomas Nambambi of the Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters received 294 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission of Namibia announced that 4 463 votes were cast in the by-election, of which 22 were rejected.<\/p>\n<p>The by-election was held after the constituency&#8217;s previous councillor, Gerson Kapenda, of Swapo, died in December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. SWAPO has retained the Okaku constituency in the Oshana region. Party candidate David Fillipus won the by-election held on Friday with 3 195 votes. Sakaria Jakop of the Independent Patriots for Change garnered 852 votes, Jason Haufiku of the Popular Democratic Movement 122, and Tomas Nambambi of the Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":41488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-41490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Swapo retains Okaku - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SWAPO has retained the Okaku constituency in the Oshana region. 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