By Stephen Bwire
The Independent Electoral Commission has nominated President Yoweri Museveni to contest for a fifth term of office as the presidential candidate holding the flag of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) Party.
The nomination was held at Kyambogo University grounds, and unlike in the previous nomination shows where the President would be thronged by huge crowds and thereafter proceed to address a mass rally at Kololo Independence grounds, this time round, the NRM Candidate was accompanied by not more than 100 people who included members of the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC), the leaders of the NRM Parliamentary Caucus, un-opposed NRM parliamentary flag-bearers, flag-bearers for youth members of parliament, among other invited members all of whom had to first undergo a mandatory COVID-19 test at the NRM Secretariat.
New manifesto promises
The NRM Candidate also launched the Party’s new elections 2021-2026 Manifesto under the theme, “Securing your Future.” The new Manifesto focuses on five critical areas: Creating wealth and jobs; delivering education and health; ensuring justice and equity; protecting life and property; and achieving economic and political integration.
In his foreword to the new manifesto, President Museveni notes that the mantle of securing the future of Uganda is so great a task for one to play bets on. “It is not a gamble. It is a matter which requires life-long commitment, unending sacrifice, and vast experience. NRM is the only political organisation that can be trusted with the sacred responsibility of securing Uganda’s future.”
Museveni also notes that a new dawn is on the horizon as more Ugandans are embracing the urgent need to integrate into the modern money economy, and that they are making positive transition from poor and subsistence living to modernity.
