This point has also been made several times by Ofwono Opondo, the executive director of the Uganda Media Centre. Opondo is one of the few NRM senior officials who have not hidden their consternation for Kadaga and her style of politics.
CEC has at least 24 members, but according to people familiar with its work, the overwhelming majority of them are not Kadaga fans. These include Ruth Nankabirwa, the government Chief Whip, Lydia Wanyoto, the Women League chairperson, Kahinda Otafire, a special nominee, Godfrey Kiwanda, Justine Kasule Lumumba the secretary-general and Jacob Oulanyah, the vice-chairman Northern Region.
“The only persons I know who are Kadaga supporters are Mike Mukula [vice chairman Eastern], Dr Tanga Odoi [chairman Electoral Commission, and Haji Moses Kigongo [National vice-chairman. And she’s acutely aware of how unpopular she is. That’s why you have seen her previously castigating CEC and saying it has no role to play in the selection of the speaker,” the
How big is your sugarcane plantation?
I farm on 450 acres of land but since the collapse of the sector, I’ve reduced that to 180 acres. I have been selling to Kakira Sugar.
So what was your loss?
I would say I have lost about Shs 400 million per year for the last three years due to my inability to sell sugarcane.
Is Butembe constituency as affected as other parts of Busoga with sugarcane growing?
Butembe is where Kakiri sugar is located, which is the largest Sugar miller in East Africa. It’s the heartbeat of the sugarcane question in the eastern region.
Daily Monitor
Saturday March 06 2021
Summary
The ruling party has sent out teams to find out why President Museveni and its candidates performed poorly in the recently concluded election and how they can attract more support for the future.
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Different sources from within the NRM say President Museveni and the NRM secretariat have turned their focus on why support for the President drastically declined, especially Buganda and Busoga areas in the recent election and how to plug the holes.
President Museveni was declared the winner of the 2021 presidential elections with 6,042,898 votes, representing 58 per cent of the valid total votes cast, which is the lowest percentage win he has posted since 1996 when he first stood for re-election.
Daily Monitor
Sunday February 14 2021
Summary
National Unity Platform’s Robert Kyagulanyi took the region with 437,059 votes against National Resistance Movement’s Yoweri Museveni’s 404,862. Mr Museveni won in only three out of the region’s 11 districts.
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One month ago, Busoga sub-region did what had until then been thought to be unthinkable – vote against ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate, Mr Yoweri Museveni.
The region had until January 14 been known to be a stronghold of both Mr Museveni and the NRM. That belief was born out of the fact that it has consistently been voting for Mr Museveni since 1996.