By Mulengera Reporters
Having knocked out then Uganda Law Society President Simon Peter Kinobe, Bugahya County MP in Hoima district easily secured reelection in 2021. However, 2026 is clearly not going to be a walk in the park for him.
In fact, the incumbent MP has lately not been sleeping after the high-performing Kikuube district RDC Amlan Tumusiime declared interest and got into the trenches, clearly prepared to use the NRM primaries to send him parking into early political retirement.
Tumusiime, a regular newspaper columnist who is also a blue-eyed boy of the President to whom he was first introduced by Minister Milly Babalanda who used to be his boss in the Kyambogo ONC office, is tapping into the widespread anti-incumbency sentiments in the constituency against Wakabi.
Wakabi has always used money, and a lot of it, to easily overwhelm and cow his opponents into submission but the same won’t work against Amlan Tumusiime who is better prepared when it comes to campaign financing.
Amlan Tumusiime is also popular with the ordinary people because he has been very outspoken against land grabbing which is rampant in Bugahya. The clear contrast is that Wakabi has generally been timid whenever required to use the MP platform to lead his people to stand up to land grabbers.
Even when he is diminished from within, Wakabi claims he is not intimidated and that he is ready to teach moneybags Amlan Tumusiime a lesson he will never forget-similar to what he taught Simon Peter Kinobe during the 2021 party primaries.
Having had enough time to nurse his political wounds, Simon Peter Kinobe was determined to try again because he passionately hates Wakabi but he recently was made a Judge of the High Court by Gen YK Museveni, which is supposed to be good news for Wakabi because it lessens his sources of political headache as the country counts down to the 2026 general elections. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
