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NRM MPs ask Museveni to allow them stand as independents

Isaac Senabulya — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 11:41:10 +0000

President Museveni meeting the NRM legal team led by the Director Legal Affairs, James Mukasa Sebugenyi.

Some of the NRM MPs who lost in the party primaries have asked their party chairman president Yoweri Museveni not to decampaign them when they stand as independents in the coming elections.

This was during a meeting they had with President Museveni last evening at State House Entebbe. The condition by these lawmakers came after the party chairman cleared those who fill that were cheated in the primaries to stand as

independents. These MPs insist that their petitions were not well handled by the NRM electoral commission chaired by Tanga Odoi.

Some members have even threatened to join the GoForward pressure group if neglected by the party adding that they feel they are still relevant.

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NRM parliamentary losers consider defecting to GoForward

Isaac Senabulya — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 08:25:52 +0000

About 60 NRM parliamentary losers consider defecting to GoForward pressure group following a meeting they had with the sister in law of the GoForward presidential candidate Hope Mwesigye at parliament. The chairperson of the losers also West Budama south MP Oboth Oboth told journalists after a closed meeting that they are not satisfied with the way the NRM electoral commission handled their petitions and it is the reason why they have decided to run as independent candidates in the coming parliamentary elections.

Oboth also adds that after, they will make a final decision by Friday this week whether they defect to GoForward following the promise by GoForward’s Representative Hope Mwesigye who was smuggled into the meeting by Kitagwenda county Nulu Byamukama.

Hope Mwesigye told the losers that they will be supported both physically and financially in the next elections. After this meeting, Mwesigy admitted to lobbying members to join GoForward adding that many had accepted to be recruited in Amama Mbabazi camp.

The MPs say that president Museveni had directed Vice chairman of NRM Alhajji Moses Kigongo to meet the NRM primary losers to address them but they are surprised that up-to-date Kigingo has not met them.

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NRM primary losers form alliance in Gomba

Isaac Senabulya — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:16:11 +0000

Four losers in the Gomba west constituency NRM primaries have formed an alliance to have one candidate for the parliamentary elections in this county in 2016 elections to win the NRM flag bearer Robinnah Rwakojo. The four included Araali Muhiirwa, Innocent Tumwesigye, Asadu Kakooza and Stanly Katabalwa .

The group is considering fronting Araali Muhirwa who is a former employee with the Judiciary to tussle it out with Robinnah Rwakojo, a wife to the secretary to the electoral commission. Muhiirwa and Tumwesigye told journalists in Kampala that they could not petition the NRM party over the irregularities that marred the party primaries because they would not get the desired justice since time is running out for the nominations for parliamentary candidates.

They claim that NRM primaries in Gomba west county in Gomba were characterized by intimidation from security agents, vote stuffing in favour of the NRM party flag bearer, voting beyond the voting time, voting in the night and influence peddling.

The election in Gomba west for NRM flag bearer was suspended three times due to disagreements that the party members had in relation to election malpractices.

In other news the NRM flag bearer for Hoima municipality Dr. Lawrence Bategeka says that he defeated the 1^st prime minister and minister for public service Henry Muganwa Kajura because the later starved the youth and community people with jobs.He says that though Kajura was placed in high paying government positions for many years he had done nothing for the local community in Hoima. He continued to note that Hoima has lagged behind in terms of development and creating jobs for the people in the area and that even if Kajura insists to stand as an independent candidate in the next parliamentary elections he will be defeated with disappointing margin because the people in Hoima are tired of him.

Reports at the NRM electoral commission show that Kajura has not petitioned against the results where was defeated although he was protesting the results citing vote rigging

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NRM EC clears 810 petitions resulting from primaries

Isaac Senabulya — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:19:25 +0000

Tanga Odoi, NRM EC Chair

The National Resistance Movement Electoral Commission has cleared a total of 810 petitions out of over 1000 petitions filed by aspirants for different elective positions. The petitions are a result of the irregularities and complaints regarding the party’s primaries. The party’s Electoral Commission Chairman Dr. Tanga Odoi said his team has been able to work tireless to and handle the petitions.

The NRM Electoral Chairperson assured members that all the petitions filed will be cleared by next week. Tanga is optimistic that his commission will also be able to submit the fully list of NRM flagbearers to the National Electoral Commission, next week.

Declaring the successful candidates for the different posts across the country, Dr.Tanga said that the party’s Electoral Commission has 99% conducted party primaries, apart from a few places like Mubende LC 5, Zombo, Kasese, Kashari , Iganga and Koboko North which have some technicalities.

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Ongoing rigging and malpractices in NRM Party Primaries sign of 2016 elections

Isaac Senabulya — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:09:51 +0000

Some Opposition MPs say the ongoing rigging and malpractices in the NRM Party Primaries is a clear indication that even in the general elections organized by the Independent Electoral commission they suspect that NRM MPs will rig.

Busongola North MP William Nzonghu says they are ready to take on NRM MPs who will stand to contest against them to make it back to parliament in 2016. He says rigging by the NRM Party is not a new occurrence and it has existed whenever there is any voting to rig out the opposition but they are ready to take on any NRM MP who is ready to rig elections come next year. He continued that most of the opposition MPs have already deployed machineries to crash any person who will participate in vote rigging.

Bukomansimbi county MP Deogracious Kiyingi says during general elections there is no way NRM flag bearers will avoid rigging as they have done always to weed out the opposition MPs. He says this is the only way the ruling will fight to reduce on the representation of the opposition MPs in the 10th Parliament so that it’s easy for government to pass all its interests which oppress the tax payers.

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NRM confirms postponed elections in three districts

Isaac Senabulya — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:39:21 +0000

Ballot Papers

The NRM deputy spokesperson, Ofono Opondo confirms the news that the party has postponed elections in three districts of Wakiso, Namutumba and Kiruhura due to mistakes orchestrated by the party’s polls commission. Opondo tells journalists that in these areas, there were missing names, others misspelt with others having wrong voting material and they have agreed with the candidates and polling officials to move the exercise to tomorrow.

He further confirms that the exercise has seen roots of serious violence put up its head which has forced the security organs to detain some of those members who have unlawfully conducted themselves as well as using excessive force to calm down the situation.

In many parts of Kampala voting material got to polling points very late forcing the exercise to kick off late but the party says that an extension in voting time will be accorded to do good to the lost time

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Aidah Nantaba withdraws from NRM party primaries

Isaac Senabulya — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 11:42:46 +0000

Minister of state for Lands Aidah Nantaba

The NRM party says it will not miss the minister of state for lands Aidah Nantaba who chose to withdraw from the party primaries. The chairperson NRM electoral commission Tang Odoi says that Nantaba wrote to the party electoral commission withdrawing from the party primaries over irregularities.

Tanga says that Nantaba has never written a petition to the party electoral commission over the irregularities in the earlier elections. He says that the NRM party is a bus where people drop out and others join. He added that the party has ever lost people bigger than Nantaba and the party is still going .

Tanga says that the they will not tolerate impunity by the people who think they are bigger than the party.

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NRM sets primary election dates as members are warned about giving bribes

Isaac Senabulya — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:31:45 +0000

NRM Nomination Forms

The NRM Electoral commission headed by Tanga Odoi yesterday castigated members of parliament who are trying to bribe their way back to parliament. Addressing the media at NRM EC offices, Odoi revealed that as a result of desire to bribe, some of the members have already fallen prey to city conmen who have fleeced millions of shillings from the members promising to give them ballot papers for stuffing. He said for example, a city conman only identified as Tinkamanyire was a few days ago arrested in Bukedea as he tried to con several contestants in the district claiming to be working in the NRM secretariat and therefore had the ballot papers for MP primaries.

Tinkamanyire, according to Tanga, went to Bukedea after he had successfully finished to con Members of Parliament from Butaleja district whom he called to a fake meeting promising to give them ballot papers and they gave him shs 600,000 each. Tanga castigated members for behaving in what he called a dishonorable manner of believing in bribery instead of working for their victory.

NRM EC has also said that primaries for Members of Parliament, LC5 chairmen and Lord Mayor await NRM CEC decision. EC commissioner Jane Alisemera says it is CEC to choose dates for when these primaries can be conducted.

The party’s EC had summoned the press to brief them on the upcoming primary elections for NRM councilors at district, sub-county and municipal councils. She says the elections for these people will take place on Monday October 5 in the regions of Northern, Karamoja, Eastern and Western.

The primaries for those positions in Kampala and Buganda NRM regions will take place on October 8.

Last week, the NRM EC postponed indefinitely primaries for NRM MP aspirants and district chairpersons citing ‘unforeseen’ circumstances.

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Religious leaders condemn violence during party primaries

Gerald Businge — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:01:20 +0000

Religious leaders under their umbrella body, Inter religious council of Uganda are strongly condemning the violent acts that were exhibited in the NRM party primaries and now urge contestants and voters to always follow the rule of the process and also accept the outcomes of the process.

Reading the statement on behalf of the chairperson, the general over seer of the born again faith, Bish. Joshua Lwere says the council was disappointed to see that contestants and voters threw party cards with others taking on the streets to demonstrate contesting the results.

The faithful now remind voters to stay calm during the electoral process and put at the back of their minds the future of the nation after the whole exercise. However, the council is organizing national prayers to hand over and give thanks to the almighty God for the wonderful nation with the prayers taking place on 3^rdOctober at Kololo.

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Nsereko not to participate in NRM party primaries

Gerald Businge — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:55:42 +0000

Mohamed Nsereko Zake

Kampala central Member of Parliament Mohamed Nsereko Zake says abandoning NRM party ticket for the same parliamentary seat will not affect him. This as Nsereko resolved not to participate in NRM party primaries; Nsereko says that he is waiting to tussle it out with NRM party candidate. He said that standing as independent Member of Parliament would be the best decision to represent his voters instead of resenting the party interest.

Mohammed Nsereko is one of the rebel NRM party MPs , though some of the MPs in this group picked forms to participate in the party primaries . Lwemiyaga county member of parliament Theodore Sekikubo recently decided to be in the party primaries saying that the disagreements that existed between himself and the party have since been resolved.

Four MPs, Theodore Sekikubo ,Muhammed Nsereko, Wilfred Niwagaba , and Barnabas Tinkasimire, were expelled from the party for breaching rule 4 of the NRM’s code of conduct, which prohibits party MPs from going against party positions and later their party held a reconciliation meeting with them and some decided to return to the party.

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