The National Unity Platform (NUP) on Monday announced Florence Asio as its new flagbearer for the Bukedea District Woman Member of Parliament seat to tussle it out with the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate the speaker of parliament also incumbent Annet Anita Among. This after the removal of Mercy Marion Alupo who had earlier been fronted to hold the party’s flag from the national voter’s register under unclear circumstances which the party leaders call a choreographed plot to favor speaker Among to go through un opposed. Alupo was contending against Anita Among with FDC’s Suzan Otai and Akol Hellen…
Author: Gladys Mukisa
Bugiri Municipality MP also the Justice Forum (JEEMA) president Asuman Basalirwa has broken silence over the claims by the National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Bobi Wine that he is a slave boy lifting the bag for the Uganda parliament speaker also the NRM party CEC second vice chairperson Annet Anita Among. Addressing a massive campaign gathering of Basalirwa’s constituents in Bugiri Municipality during his presidential campaign trail in Busoga region earlier October, Bobi Wine accused Basalirwa of betraying their opposition struggle when he chose to turn into Anita Among’s bag boy, requesting his electors to use the…
Recently, the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu popularly known as Bobi Wine made a public pronouncement that his led political party would not be part of the future arrangement regarding the Inter Party Organization for Dialogue (IPOD), insisting that it had been turned into a platform that simply legitimizes the incumbent president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s four-decade regime that is tainted with gross mismanagement and abuse of power. Bobi Wine’s public pronouncement followed the May 2025 amendment into the Political Parties and Organization Act of 2005, restricting the annual government funding to only active political parties…
State minister for trade, industry and cooperatives David Bahati has confirmed he has dropped his intention to run as an independent for Ndorwa West MP in 2026 elections. Bahati’s decision followed his terrible loss in the recent chaotic NRM party primaries that saw several cabinet ministers and incumbent MPS losing out the party flag to the new comers. Below is Bahati’s statement in full: Fellow Citizens of Kigezi, Kabale, Members of the NRM party, People of Ndorwa County West and Uganda at large;After deep reflection and wide consultations with the President H. E Yoweri Kaguta T. Museveni today at the…