It’s Museveni yet again as party unveils flagbearer

Uganda’s ruling party as settled on President Yoweri Museveni as its choice candidate ahead of the upcoming elections in 2021.

The National Resistance Movement said that they have made their stand clear, and in a sense endorsed Museveni for a consecutive sixth term.

The decision gives Museveni a shot for a sixth consecutive five-year term in office. Should he win, Museveni will have an opportunity to rule for a record four decades.

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NRM party members had at a recent retreat christened President Museveni the ‘theoretician and principal strategist of the movement’.

“To emphatically recommend to the membership of the Movement and its organs that Yoweri Museveni, our leader and General of the African resistance, continues leading the Movement in 2021 and beyond as we eliminate the bottlenecks ‘to transformation’, the members noted in resolution after the retreat,” the party announced.

It is what it is!

Asked whether the party had given Museveni the nod, NRM spokesman said; “Exactly. That is what it means. I can only say that there is no danger in doing that. There is no law breached. This matter can continue to be sold to other party members as we get closer to the National Delegates Conference in November, this year.”

74 year-old Museveni had strongly supported a constitutional amendment that scraped a 75-year cap barring overage contestants from seeking the presidency.

After the bill, now law, successfully sailed, albeit acrimoniously, Museveni now has a shot at the Presidency yet again.

If he succeeds, he will be break the record for having served the longest in Africa, to join the league with former Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe.

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