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Museveni Brother Sodo Declared Mawogola NRM Flagbearer Amidst Tension

Museveni Brother Sodo Declared Mawogola NRM Flagbearer Amidst Tension

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By Our Reporter President Yoweri Museveni’s younger brother Godfrey Aine Kaguta aka Sodo was Wednesday evening declared the Mawogola North National Resistance Movement (NRM) flagbearer for the 2021 general election. Aine was announced  winner of the NRM primaries following a stiff competition with Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa’s daughter Shartsi Musherure Kutesa, in which he polled 17,775 representing 46.3% while Musherure got 16,155 votes (42.17%) and  Salim Kiseka scored 4,415 votes. The belated National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries for Mawogola North and West in Sembabule district were held on Wednesday under tight security to avert acts of violence, intimidation of voters and hooliganism. In Mawogola North, the race had three contenders, including t...
Museveni Warns Relatives, Gov’t Officials To Stop Using His Name For Political Gains

Museveni Warns Relatives, Gov’t Officials To Stop Using His Name For Political Gains

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By Keefa Nuwahereza President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has warned all his relatives, members of the First Family and government officials to desist from using his name when campaigning for political office. Museveni made these shortly after meeting political leaders in Ssembabule, Isingiro, Kiruhura, Kazo and Mbarara Districts  who were warring over who becomes the flag bearers for the National Resistance Movement (NRM) ahead of the 2021 general election. Minister Sam Kutesa's daughter Shartsi Musherure Kutesa is warring with President Museveni's younger brother Aine Godfrey Sodo for the Mawogola North MP seat The President issued the warning in a missive he wrote on social media on Friday, 11 September 2020, in which he stated thus; “I spent the day in Mbarara and Semba...
UPDF Warns Soldiers Against Partisan Politics As Battle Between  Kutesa Gal, Museveni Bro. Sodo Heats Up

UPDF Warns Soldiers Against Partisan Politics As Battle Between Kutesa Gal, Museveni Bro. Sodo Heats Up

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By Our Reporter The Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) High Command has directed all soldiers and officers to desist from engaging in partisan politics as they provide security to all politicians they were deployed to guard. This comes at a time when bitter clashes between soldiers guarding different politicians are erupting in   several parts of the country, with the most prevalent case being that of Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa’s daughter Shatsi Musherure Kutesa and President Yoweri Museveni’s brother Aine Godfrey Kaguta aka Sodo. Both Sodo and Musherure are vying for the Mawogola North constituency Member of Parliament seat in the 2021 election, on the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party ticket and the stiff competition between them currently is about who sails...