Aspiring MP candidates on the newly formed Democratic Front (DF) have been given 50 million shillings each as support to run campaigns for their 2026 elections, this Website has exclusively learnt.
One of the candidates that must be happiest is David Musiri (Makindye West) who had crossed from the National Unity Platform (NUP) to the DF prior to the nomination exercise by the national Electoral Commission (EC) recently.
Musiri’s defection had followed the denial of ticket by the NUP leadership to hold its flag, giving it to Zahara Lurika the outgoing KCCA Council speaker.
Sources close to Musiri told Blazer News Times that their man received 50 million shillings from his party administration, part of which is to help him with printing the campaign postas.
Other DF MP flag bearers have been extended with the similar support in a bid to ease for them the campaign landscape that has proven to be challenging partly against the financially constrained opposition players with no or very limited resources as compared to the ruling NRM, according to sources.
The DF president Mathias Mpuuga recently made a public announcement that his led party would meet the 3 million nomination fee cost for all their MP candidates. Mpuuga explained that meeting the nomination cost for candidates is the duty of every serious political formation, before he could poke holes in NUP’s laments rationalizing the largest opposition party failure to sponsor her MP candidates.
Impliedly, the party has extended the 50 million support to its candidates on top of that was earlier given for their nomination. Some political observers say that most of the DF MP candidates were motivated by the money to hold the party flag.
We had tried reaching out the DF secretary general Lubega Mukaaku to comment about our news report as well as clarifying about the exact figure of their fielded candidates but un successfully by the press time, as he hadn’t replied to our WhatsApp messages.
The DF core leadership broke away from NUP following the accusation of Mpuuga the former NUP vice president for Buganda region and Leader of Opposition in Parliament, of irregularly having received a 500 million shillings in the name of service award shortly after he had assumed his office, which the NUP party leadership called political corruption.
Unlike NUP that did not extend financial support to its candidates for 2026 elections on grounds that the party was financially constrained, the DF has been able to finance theirs, sparking suspicion with questioning around their funding source.
