Mbabazi to start campaigns in Masaka, Museveni in Luweero
Presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi addresses his supporters at Nakivubo on Tuesday. PHOTO BY RACHEL MABALA
KAMPALA:
President Museveni and Go Forward’s Amama Mbabazi will, according to tentative programmes prepared by their campaign teams, both begin their presidential campaigns in central Uganda.
The three-month campaigns for the February 18, 2016 presidential elections formally begin on Monday, next week, the Independent Electoral Commission chairman Badru Kiggundu says.
True to tradition, President Museveni will start his campaign in Luweero, the heartland of his five-year guerrilla war. Mr Mbabazi, on the other hand, has chosen to start in Masaka, a traditional Democratic Party and Catholic base in Buganda, Uganda’s most populous region.
Mbabazi will later move to Mityana and later return to Kampala, the capital.
Besigye, according to those close to the campaign planning, will start his vote canvassing in Rukungiri, his home district in south-western Uganda, and proceed to the neighbouring Kanungu district where Mbabazi hails from.
Officials of all the eight presidential candidates are expected to have given their preferred campaign timetable to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for harmonisation.
“We have just handed in our campaign programmes to the commission. There is another meeting tomorrow to harmonise our campaign meetings so that there no clashes at any particular venue,” the Independent Coalition’s head of bureau, Mr Omar Kalinge Nyago, tell Daily Monitor.
Nnyago says their candidate Joseph Mabirizi will begin his campaigns in Zana, Wakiso district.
Independent candidates Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba and Ms Maureen Faith Kyalya Walube attended Thursday’s meeting at the IEC headquarters in Kampala.
