The woman member of Kitgum district Beatrice Anywar has abandoned campaigning for any of the opposition leading presidential candidates. Anyar told journalists in Kampala that she is no longer campaigning for either Dr.Kiiza Besigye or Amama Mbabazi though she nominated Amama Mbabazi yet she is hailing from FDC. She said that she refused to campaign for any […]
NRM presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni has pledged to assist land eviction victims in Hoima district. The president made the pledge after being informed that there are land wars in the district which the area RDC attributed to court orders that come even without proper verification of ownership of land. The RDC said that the poor people are […]
The Member of Parliament for Butambala County Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi pleads with the leading opposition presidential candidates in 2016 presidential race Amama Mbabazi and Dr. Col. Kiiza Besigye to double their campaigning strategy to deny NRM candidate 51%. The diminishing winning percentage of candidate President Yoweri Museveni from 51% to 40%. Will cause a rerun and giving […]
The electoral commission chairman, Eng. Badru Kigundu and his secretary, Sam Rwakojo confirmed that the first batch of ballot papers for the presidential, parliamentary candidates are jetting in the country today from South Africa. Addressing a news conference yesterday in Kampala, the dual said the commission contracted Pearl Media group in South Africa to do the printing of the ballot papers among other […]
Members of Parliament have mixed reaction over vote rigging as opposition MPs say that the opposition has no capacity to steal votes as alluded by President Yoweri Museveni. The member of Parliament for Busiro East in Wakiso district Medard Segona says the remarks by president Museveni are excuses so that the NRM Party rigs these elections. Kalungu […]
DENIVA Uganda one of the local NGOs that was accredited to observe and do voter civic education in the ongoing general elections has today revealed that the nation is likely not to have a free and fair electoral process if security organs among other state machineries continue violating electoral laws. Addressing a news conference today, DENIVA representative […]
Some Members of Parliament have rubbished the new opinion polls saying they are aimed at duping voters to vote for a particular candidate. A new opinion poll by Research World International (RWI) has placed incumbent President Yoweri Museveni in the lead with 51 percent followed by Forum for Democratic Change party presidential candidate, Kizza Besigye at […]
Alliance for Campaign Finance Monitoring (ACFIM) has released a report which has ranked NRM as the highest spender on elections with about 100 billion Uganda Shillings. We Just Launched this report today and has been well received pic.twitter.com/DGUyFGHFmd — ACFIM (@AcfimUg) January 21, 2016 According to the report, NRM spent over UGX.30 billion on party primary, UGX. 19 billion on delegates conference, UGX.10 billion to popularize sole candidate, […]
The Elder’s Forum of Uganda and the Inter Religious Council of Uganda are of the view that the presidential debates be included in the electoral road-map to give more room to candidates to attend them with no big excuse. According to the chairman TEFU, Justice James Ogola, the just concluded presidential debate was very much successful and […]
The European Union Election Observation Mission to Uganda is calling for co-ordination of all election related activities to ensure a peaceful process. Chief Observer Eduard Kukan, a Slovak member of the European Parliament, says the team drawn from 9 countries will be working with local stakeholders to support the electoral process. Addressing a news conference in […]