NRM to repeat parish structure residual elections in Ssembabule

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The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party electoral commission (EC) has ordered fresh party parish structure residual elections in Lwemiyaga and Mawogola West Constituency on May 15 (Today) after a petition review meeting related to election malpractices.

The party made the communication today after a heated stakeholders' meeting at its secretariat at Kyadondo in Kampala city.

The meeting, chaired by the NRM EC vice-chairperson, Fred Omach Mandir, resolved that the fresh elections be conducted in Kabale parish, Nakasenyi sub-county in Mawogola West Constituency.

The meeting also resolved that the elections be conducted afresh in Lwemiyaga county in the affected parishes of Lwesakara, Makoore, Bwogyero and Kabukongongote following the party guidelines.

No need to overturn election results

The party said they did not find merit or substantial evidence to overturn the declared results in parishes of Meeru, Kanoni, Nyabitanga, and Rwemibu parish. 

“As such, the results in those parishes still stand," Omoch said in the communication dated May 14.

He said the party EC is still investigating the affected party registrars. He advised the leaders and electorate in Ssembabule to comply with the security deployment and instructions.

The meeting was attended by the party's Parliamentary aspirants and incumbents in Mawogola West and Lwemiyaga, including their agents. They included MP Theodore Ssekikubo and opponent Gen. (rtd) Emmanuel Rwashande, Ssembabule District Woman MP Mary Begumisa and husband Wilberforce Begumisa (vying for the Mawogola West Parliamentary seat). Area MP Hanifa Kawoya, who doubles as the health state minister, participated.

Commenting on the decision to have fresh residual elections in the affected parishes, Gen. (rtd) Phinehas Katirima, who supports Rwashande's candidature for Lwemiyaga parliamentary seat, said incumbent MP Ssekikubo should retire.

“We have defeated Ssekikubo already, the fresh elections in those few parishes cannot change the overwhelming victory registered by the pro-Rwashande camp in the party grassroots elections at village and parish level,” he said.

He said they mastered how to defeat Ssekikubo and his tactics.

Ssekikubo, who has served as MP for 25 years, said militarising the elections in Lwemiyaga is wrong and vowed to defeat Rwashande and his allies in the 2026 elections. Rwashande is backed by fellow retired senior soldiers and members of the First Family, among others.