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After Buganda Showing Yellow Card to NRM; What Next?
By Simon Kimoyi || PhD Candidate, Kampala International University Listen to article
The emergency of the National Unity Platform (NUP) struck out many surprises and is causing more shocks. So far, returns from the January 14 election have introduced significant shifts in the voting ways. Long dominant NRM candidates, including party chairman, Yoweri Museveni are experiencing an embarrassing fall from grace to grass.
With a combined 41% presidential election tally, the opposition pulled their best performance since 1996. Conversely, with 59%, president Museveni had his worst posting ever. If this, in soccer terms, is the yellow card, in Ugandan politics it’s the beginning of a yellow fall, risking a red card for total exit.