I cannot validate the claim below, but it does not surprise me. In fact, it explains why a number of Museveni’s NRM candidates are already being announced as having been elected, unopposed, two months before the Parliamentary Elections are even due to take place on 15th January 2026! This is democracy in Uganda!

“The electoral commission seems to have opened floodgates. If you can manage to convince (bribe) just one person among those who nominated your opponent to go to the Electoral Commission and deny ever signing [the nomination] for him/her, the EC will simply disqualify your opponent and you go unopposed.”

I have also been hearing of opposition candidates who have withdrawn. And one NUP (opposition) candidate went missing on her way to register her candidature, only to reappear a few days later wearing yellow (Museveni’s NRM party colours) and saying she had changed parties. I call that suspicious.

It requires enormous courage to stand for the opposition NUP party, as a spokesperson, nominator or candidate.

I confess to being too weak to risk being tortured and killed if I were given a way to avoid it. What about you?

THIS is why we need to speak out about what is happening in Uganda.