Focus has turned to long-serving Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni after Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir, a political hardliner, and controversial leader finally stepped down after 30 years in power.
A victory in the next election, in 2021, could extend the 74-year-old Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni’s rule to 40 years, to make him one of the longest-serving rulers in Africa.
A key committee of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) resolved to back Museveni for another term.
Museveni’s government has changed Uganda’s constitution twice to allow him to extend his rule.
In 2005, it removed a two-term limit on the presidency. Twelve years later, it voted to scrap an age limit of 75. The cap would have made Museveni ineligible to stand at the next election.
Museveni has himself not said whether he intends to vie, although he is widely expected to.
Well he better think twice because many have already declared he should be next on the presidential ouster list.
