Uganda politics

Dr. Tanga Odoi, the Chairman of the NRM Electoral Commission, has said the opposition should get ready for more defeat. He said this while commenting about the Soroti City East by-elections that were just concluded last week. By the end of the election exercise, NRM had won the race to the dismay of opposition. Odoi, however, says this is just ...

Former Kawempe South MP Mubarak Munyagwa has expressed his fear over the upcoming by-election in Kasese district. Munyagwa thinks that there might be several deaths in the region. This is because the people in the district know how to fight for themselves. And they won’t allow their victory to be stolen by the NRM in case they elect an opposition ...

Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, Principal of NUP has said the government is just trying to make people hate elections. Bobi Wine said this in light of what happened in Soroti on Thursday. According to him, the whole election process was saddening. “What happened in the Soroti East by-election is saddening given what Museveni’s government did. This was the case ...

Kasambya County member of Parliament, Hon. David Kabanda, has revealed that President Museveni turned down a shock suggestion by Vice President H.E Jessica Alupo. According to Kabanda, while in Ntungamo at one of Museveni’s numerous homes last month, Alupo suggested that the NRM shouldn’t front a candidate in the Soroti East By-election. This was to be in favor of FDC’s ...

There was drama last night on NBS TV’s Frontline program as a scuffle ensued between the NRM spokesperson Ofwono Opondo and the Kampala lord mayor Erias Lukwago. All this started after Lukwago pointed out the illegalities portrayed in the Soroti East By-election. This had massive allegations of ballot stuffing, high level of militarism and voter bribery. NRM’s Herbert Ariko ended ...