By Mulengera Reporters
Yusuf Nsibambi challenged Soroti Woman MP Anna Adeke Ebaju who he disliked for criticizing his new boss Gen YK Museveni by claiming that the 15th January 2026 Presidential Elections were the worst in the history of independent Uganda.
Adeke, who just won reelection to represent her people for another five years, had referred to the involvement of NRM money, the RDCs and the military to conclude that this was nothing but a sham election.
Nsibambi, who spoke after Adeke during the ULS/RNB weekly media interface at the Law Society’s Kololo premises, disagreed with all this. He said he lost his Mawokota South MP seat not because of vote rigging but simply because voters didn’t elect him.
Nsibambi pushed back against Adeke’s points by describing Nandala as a very dishonest politician whose post-voting news conference in Mbale (which he used to reject the results and accuse Museveni of unprecedented vote rigging) was aimed at deceiving and exciting unsuspecting members of the public.
Nsibambi disregarded Nandala’s rant at the impugned news conference as misguided and uninformed and he explained why. “He addressed that press conference without the approval or involvement of the FDC NEC or Management Committee. There was supposed to be a comprehensive election results report which must be discussed either by NEC or the Management Committee. And all that has to happen in a meeting.”
He added: “There was no such meeting and I’m asking what was the basis of him [Nandala] saying what he was saying at that press conference. Which results was he basing on when we know very well he had no polling agents at polling stations and therefore has no DR forms? We also didn’t have a campaign bureau. So which votes of my candidate [Nandala] did President Museveni steal?”
He added that Nandala Mafabi, at whose pleasure he served as FDC whip in Parliament and Deputy President for Buganda, was deliberately lying to just excite his gullible followers because he clearly lacked support in the country.
Nsibambi said that his Mpigi district was the model district for FDC when it comes to preparations and organizing for the 2026 elections.
“I had polling agents at all polling stations in especially Mawokota South. I had two for myself and two for my Presidential Candidate but he simply didn’t have votes and there was nothing for the NRM to steal from him. Even where he had agents, courtesy of my coordination, the votes were simply not there. The best polling station in Mawokota gave him just 20 votes. How can such a person say his votes were stolen yet there was nothing to be stolen?”
Nsibambi wondered: “If you got just 20 votes in areas where you had two polling agents, how then can you claim you were cheated where you couldn’t even raise one polling agent? What is the basis for you to say that even when you didn’t have agents?”
Nsibambi’s utterances contradicted what Augustine Ojobile, the FDC EC secretary implied recently when he said that Nsibambi is a traitor who went into hiding, fearing to annoy NUP foot soldiers, and generally avoided associating himself with candidate Nandala Mafabi. Moses Mugisha Okwera, another diehard Nandala loyalist inside FDC, says Nsibambi is a very treacherous politician who no politician should ever trust.
At the ULS media event on Thursday, Nsibambi challenged Adeke to explain to the country how she managed to win and get declared if indeed the entire 2026 exercise was sham as she was claiming.
Perhaps out of respect for him being a senior, Adeke avoided directly responding to Nsibambi. Instead she said where things had reached, no amount of legal reforms would cure the political problems in Uganda. She demanded total overhaul of the political system.
Not done, Nsibambi advised members of the political opposition to grow up and reorganize themselves instead of begrudging Gen Museveni who he insisted won free and fair elections.
“I have been involved in many election processes including being a key member of Dr. Kizza Besigye’s legal teams when he challenged the elections in the supreme court and I’m here to tell you that this was the most incident-free election we have ever had in Uganda. My PA [Mulindwa Lubega] Walid is there. He can bear me witness. We were there campaigning [in Mawokota] and I asked him what exactly is happening? How come Police isn’t arresting me? Not even being summoned to make a statement? I asked him which type of election is this?”
Nsibambi asserted that all this was indicative of the fact that 2026 was the freest and fairest election exercise in the history of Uganda as a country. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
