By Mulengera Reporters
Minister Norbert Mao says that all leaders taking part in 2026 campaigns are going to be required to go about their political canvassing quietly so as to minimize disruption to ordinary people going about their business.
The DP leader, who will be running for Presidency for a third time, says this could end up being the quietest campaign in the history of campaigning in the whole world-and not just by Ugandan standards.
Mao says that such restrictions will particularly make life very hard for candidates sponsored by noisy parties like NUP and PFF. Mao was speaking to reporters at DP headquarters at Balintuma near Nakulabye.
Speaking on the evening of the same day but on a different platform (97.3fm Radio Simba), Semujju Nganda (renowned for accessing confidential leaks from the State House corridors since his journalism days) said that President Museveni had confided into people in his inner orbit that he intends to hold only 50 political rallies.
“At 81 years of age, the revolutionary leader is physically tired and exhausted, which is why he wants only 50 rallies. He is low on energy and doesn’t want to struggle traversing to campaign in the whole country. He is planning to have only 50 rallies and yet no one should campaign in more places than him. People are going to be restricted and that’s why I have been predicting to fellow political leaders that 2026 has been designed to be the worst election in Uganda’s history and it might be the last one because I don’t anticipate this country ever having elections once again under President Muhoozi Kainerugaba,” Nganda submitted during the Radio Simba appearance along with veteran journalist Richard Baguma.
He suggested it’s now a foregone conclusion that Museveni is determined to have his son, the CDF, become President immediately after him.
Semujju Nganda added that Gen Museveni doesn’t have to invest in violence like he did in 2021 for 2026 to turn out to be the worst election in the country’s history. His point is that parties like NUP should embrace the idea of a united opposition which PFF and ANT have been pushing for because to be able withstand the mischief that Gen Museveni is planning, Robert Kyagulanyi will need the solidarity of fellow Principals heading other like-minded opposition formations. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
