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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   11 candidates have been nominated to contest for the Kyadondo East parliamentary seat to replace Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine.  Kyagulanyi has been MP for the area since 2017 after winning by a landslide by-election in 2017.  He has declared his intentions to …

Sembabule, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   By the close of the official nomination on Friday, the National Resistance Movement-NRM had failed to sponsor a party flagbearer for Mawogola North Constituency parliamentary seat in Sembabule district. This  follows the failure by the party authorities to break the stalemate on the official …

Masaka, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Campaign posters of the Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi have been defaced as the battle for Bukoto Central Constituency MP Seat heats up.  Before his nomination on Friday, at Kyannamukaaka sub-county headquarters in Masaka district, Ssekandi’s and his campaign team found several of his …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   The State Minister for Economic Monitoring Molly Kamukama has been nominated to contest as an independent candidate for the Kazo Woman MP seat.  On Thursday, the High Court in Mbarara for the second time threw out an application filed by Kamukama, seeking to block …

Kiruhura, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Ambassador Wilson Kajwengye has today been nominated to contest for the Nyabushozi county parliamentary seat in Kiruhura district, ending bickering on the right aspirant for the National Resistance Movement-NRM ticket.  He was endorsed by the party after Residual elections held on Thursday. According to results …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   The Kampala district office of the Electoral Commission has today turned away National female representative for Persons with disability, Safia Nalule who had turned up for nominations. Nalule also a commissioner of Parliament had turned up for nominations thinking since it was the last …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Businesses and traffic in Bwaise came to a standstill as security personnel engaged in running battles with supporters of Kawempe South Member of Parliament Mubarak Munyagwa. Several supporters of Munyagwa covered gathered at his offices on Nabweru Road to receive him after he had …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Independents formed the majority of candidates that were nominated to contest for Parliamentary positions in Kampala district. Altogether, the ten constituencies in the city attracted 35 contenders spread across the five divisions of Nakawa, Makindye, Lubaga, Kawempe and Kampala Central.  This is followed by …

Wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Police have arrested Busiro East Parliamentary candidate Emmanuel Matovu Magoola for defying orders on processions and convoys.   Matovu, who narrowly lost to Medard Lubega Sseggona in the 2016 elections, had come for nomination with hundreds of people and cars contrary to the guidelines issued …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Former Presidential Aspirant Samuel Lubega Mukaaku has today been nominated as the only member of the Social Democratic Party- SDP, joining the list of candidates contesting for the Rubaga South parliamentary seat.  The race has so far attracted 13 candidates. The others are Aloysius …