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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% pres...

Daily Monitor Monday January 18 2021 Sugarcane trucks park at Kakira Sugar works Ltd parking yard on April 15, 2020. In Busoga, Mr Museveni got 404,862 votes, while Mr Kyagulanyi received 437,059 votes. PHOTO /FILE. Summary Some residents attribute Mr Museveni’s defeat to his failure to address the chronic poverty, especially the low prices for sugarcane. Advertisement The January 14 presidential elections produced some of the biggest surprises for President Museveni and his ruling National R...

Daily Monitor Monday January 18 2021 Summary NRM says. “This time round, the overwhelming NRM win was dependent on effort put in by mobilisers who explained to the local people what President Museveni and NRM have done for them. This was also as a result of NRM leaders in the area. We sat and agreed that the party should win overwhelmingly,’’ Ms Mary Karooro, the Minister for General Duties in the Office of the Prime Minister. Advertisement Ankole and Kigezi sub-regions, which make up sou...

Daily Monitor Monday January 18 2021 PHOTO MONTAGE: Presidential candidates in the January 14 election, Yoweri K Museveni and Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. PHOTOS/DAVID LUBOWA/MICHEAL KAKUMIRIZI. Summary Petition. In 20016, presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi also filed a presidential petition challenging Museveni’s victory but the court dismissed his petition for lack of sufficient evidence to prove election fraud.   The National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate, Mr Robert Ky...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 17 2021 Summary One of the causes of the perennial political instability and uncertainty in Africa is the winner-take-all system, in which those who win a general election all but capture the state itself and its resources, and those who lose are not only left feeling bitter but typically are treated as enemies of the state, writes Timothy Kalyegira. In runner-up position was the NUP candidate and musician Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine. Once again, the election...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 17 2021 NRM presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni addresses a gathering in Busia Town on December 1, 2020. PHOTO | KELVIN ATUHAIRE. Summary President Museveni clinched his sixth term of office after beating 10 other opponents.  If he serves the entire term, the victory will see him serve as President for a period of 40 years. Derrick Kiyonga explores how the NRM candidate managed to win. Advertisement In 1996, when President Museveni was casting his vote in the p...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 17 2021 NUP candidate Robert Kyagulanyi (centre) is blocked by the army as he enters Kasese District in December 2020. Summary At the time of his emergence, analysts believed that NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi’s strength lay in the fact that he was relatively cleaner, at least politically, and unencumbered by the past. In a space of less than five years, he led demonstrations, came face to face with death on at least two occasions and was arrested o...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 17 2021 President Museveni celebrates his nomination at the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party offices in Kampala last year. Electoral Commission yesterday declared him winner of the 2021 presidential election. PHOTO /FILE Advertisement  President Museveni was in combat mood and kept on his military camouflage jacket yesterday night as he addressed the country hours after being declared winner of the January 14 election.  The President had showed up to  cas...

The president’s dubious re-election has all the hallmarks of a tired regime pulling its old tricks

Daily Monitor Saturday January 16 2021 Forum for Democratic Change party presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuria campaigns in Kakapiripirit District on December 12,2020 Advertisement The Kakumiro Grade One Magistrate’s Court was on January 6, at 8.20pm, enveloped in darkness.  But still the court, which was aided with light emanating from a camera manned by an NTV reporter, proceeded to charge Patrick Oboi Amuriat, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)’s presidential candidate, who was ...