The ruling party, NRM chairman over the weekend failed to announce his six endorsements as Uganda’s representatives to the East African Legislative Assembly after the delegates’ conference meeting in Entebbe.
Uganda has nine slots to Eala, six for NRM, two for the opposition, and one for an independent candidate.
Forced by increasing voter supporter for the majorly known former Members of Parliament and close allies, the President forwarded the decision making from his NRM Central Executive Committee — the ruling party’s second highest organ to the party MPs to choose from among the NRM 43 aspirants.
“We should leave them for the caucus to decide,” a source quoted Museveni as having told CEC.
The government system is already doing its part to make the order moot, first with chief whip Ruth Nankabirwa and Museveni defence advisor Maj Gen Proscovia Nalweyiso going to have the MPs transported to Entebbe on Tuesday morning.
Ms. Sarah Kagingo, a former aide to Museveni and also an aspirant in this election tweeted: “All 43 NRM #EALA aspirants to contest in the party parliamentary caucus elections on 7 Feb 2017, 4 have stood down.”
The East African Legislative Assembly law stipulates that campaigns should only take place in parliament on the Election Day.
