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May 23, 2021 The NRM opted for Oulanyah over Kadaga
Kamuli Woman MP Alitwala Rebecca Kadaga says she will defy her ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), and contest as an independent candidate in the race for the 11th parliament speaker.
Kadaga told journalists at a hastily organized press conference at Hotel Africana that while her party has decided to field her former deputy, Jacob Oulanyah for the position, she will not heed to the position and therefore will exercise her right to run as an independent when parliament meets tomorrow to elect the speaker and deputy speaker.
Today, both the NRM central executive committee (CEC) and the party caucus resolved to field Oulanyah as the party s preferred candidate for speaker of the 11th parliament. Kadaga reportedly stormed out of the meeting at State House Entebbe after non-CEC members were allowed into the meeting and she was being accused of disloyalty to the NRM party. From Entebbe, Kadaga drove straight to H
With the completion of the swearing-in ceremony on May 12, 2021, Yoweri Museveni, aged 76, has begun his sixth consecutive term in the presidential office of Uganda. Ironically, it was Museveni who was critical of the African rulers that were corrupt and had ‘overstayed’. However, he already is in the company of African rulers of the past decade, such as Muammar Gaddafi (Libya), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Omar al-Bashir (Sudan), and Idriss Déby (Chad) who governed their respective states with an iron hand.
As a shrewd ruler, Museveni manipulated political institutions to ensure his survival. Through constitutional amendments, the term limit as well as the age limit of 75 to hold Presidential office was removed in 2005 and in 2017, respectively. When Uganda conducted its elections in January 2021, Museveni’s National Resistance Movement Party (NRM) was declared elected by 58.64 percent of votes cast on January 14, 2021. However, the voter turnout was low because just 10 milli