Former Teso South MP Mary Emase has vowed to make a political comeback, to teach Busia Governor Sospeter Ojaamong a lesson. Emase who was first elected to the National Assembly in 2013 through the United Republican Party (URP) has said she is not scared of the governor and the incumbent MP Geoffrey Omuse, arguing that she was rigged out in the 2017 polls for being a woman.
Emase was the only elected female MP from Western region in the 2013 polls, following in the footsteps of Prof Julia Ojiambo who was the first elected female MP in Western in 1974 and Prof Christine Mango who served as Butula MP between 2002–2007.