[1] The seat fell vacant when Ibrahim Abiriga of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), was assassinated in June 2018.
Twenty years later, the same university awarded him a Master of Arts in Social Sector Planning and Management.
In 2003, he graduated with an Associate degree in Democracy and Social Development, from Uganda Martyrs University, in Nkozi, Mpigi District.
[4] During the by-election to replace the slain Ibrahim Abiriga in August 2018, Wadri decided to run as an independent.
[5] In the run-up to this election, Kassiano Wadri was arrested together with other politicians, including Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu and others.