Museveni declared NRM flag bearer, Rwabwogo thrown out

National Resistance Movement (NRM) Electoral Commission chairman, Mr Tanga Odoi has confirmed President Yoweri Museveni as a sole candidate for the party ahead of the 2016 presidential elections.

This comes after Mr Museveni was confirmed on Saturday as the national chairman of NRM by the National Executive Committee.
In his acceptance speech on Sunday at the party headquarters at Kyandondo in Kampala, president Museveni said NRM as a government has achieved a lot over the years and pledged to fight corruption, poverty and improve household income.

“I want to thank Central Executive Committee (CEC), and members of the NEC for supporting my candidature. I also want to thank the historical NRM league for supporting my candidature. The NRM is not a novice organization. It is an organization that has gone through a furnace of history of Uganda. We have been able to achieve a lot like liberating the country, minimum recovery programme of the country, economic transformation by sending many children to school and health, among others,” he said.

According to Mr Museveni, his government has also been able to ensure that there’s peace and democracy in the country.
“We have also been able to entrench the culture of democracy. The next phase of history will have to ensure two things (targets), eg banishing poverty in our homes, that is, Shs20million for each homestead per annum. The second one will be to industrialize the country,” he added.

The president attributed the increasing corruption tendencies in the ministries and other government institutions to inadequate investigative machinery.

“It is not because of lack of political will but because of lack of an investigative machinery to find out who has done what. I want to promise you that things will be better than where we are coming from because we now have got a strong foundation that we did not had in the past,” Mr Museveni added.
According to Mr Museveni, it is only NRM which has the capacity to improve the citizens’ livelihood.

Rwabwogo thrown out

Meanwhile, attempts by President Museveni's son-in-law, Odrek Rwabwogo, to end Brig. Matayo Kyaligonza's reign as NRM national vice chairperson Western region suffered a still birth after CEC declined to sanction his candidature.

Rwabogo's candidature in the impending NRM internal elections to elect its leaders at different levels had caused a stir especially among the young party supporters.

During the NRM National Executive Council meeting Saturday at State House Entebbe, NRM secretary general Kasule Lumumba revealed that Kyaligonza had been unanimously recommended by CEC members during its meeting.