• Latest
Opposition Considers Fielding One Candidate in Bugiri Municipality MP Election

Opposition Considers Fielding One Candidate in Bugiri Municipality MP Election

5 years ago
Manufacturers to Meet Minister Nankabirwa on Increasing Energy Uptake in Uganda

Manufacturers to Meet Minister Nankabirwa on Increasing Energy Uptake in Uganda

7 hours ago
NSSF Partners with  Software Company Ideawake to support Ugandan Innovators & Entrepreneurs

NSSF Defends its Performance, Real Estate Investments Before Parliament Committee

9 hours ago
Renowned British Sports Commentator Rob Walker in Uganda

Renowned British Sports Commentator Rob Walker in Uganda

9 hours ago
Presidents Museveni and Ramaphosa to Attend Uganda- South Africa Business Summit

Presidents Museveni and Ramaphosa to Attend Uganda- South Africa Business Summit

1 day ago
Uganda is More United than Ever, says Museveni at 42nd Tarehe Sita

Uganda is More United than Ever, says Museveni at 42nd Tarehe Sita

1 day ago
Museveni Commends Revolutionaries, Calls for Continuous Transformation

Museveni Commends Revolutionaries, Calls for Continuous Transformation

1 day ago
SoftPower News
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
  • News
  • Tourism & Travel
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion
  • Regional
    • Kenya
    • Rwanda
    • Tanzania
    • Burundi
    • South Sudan
    • DR Congo
  • Defence & Security
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • More
    • Agriculture
    • Africa
    • Columnists
    • Education
    • Health
      • COVID-19
    • International News
    • News in Pictures
    • OpEd
    • Pearl Of Africa
    • People
    • Politics
    • Special Reports
    • Women
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Tourism & Travel
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion
  • Regional
    • Kenya
    • Rwanda
    • Tanzania
    • Burundi
    • South Sudan
    • DR Congo
  • Defence & Security
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • More
    • Agriculture
    • Africa
    • Columnists
    • Education
    • Health
      • COVID-19
    • International News
    • News in Pictures
    • OpEd
    • Pearl Of Africa
    • People
    • Politics
    • Special Reports
    • Women
No Result
View All Result
SoftPower News
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Opposition Considers Fielding One Candidate in Bugiri Municipality MP Election

by Kungu Al-mahadi Adam
May 9, 2018
Opposition Considers Fielding One Candidate in Bugiri Municipality MP Election

Asuman Basalirwa

  • Facebook
  • Tweet
  • WhatsApp
  • Telegram
  • Email

The Opposition is considering fielding one candidate to contest for the Bugiri Municipality Parliamentary seat, according to Justice Forum’s Asuman Basalirwa.

Basalirwa who is vying for the seat told SoftPower News that he is optimistic about winning the election scheduled for early June and that he is not bothered about Forum for Democratic Change candidate, Eunice Namatende.

Related Stories

FDC Protests Soroti East By-election results

Soroti East By-election: FDC Candidate Attan Allegedly ‘Poisoned’

NUP Backs FDC’s Attan in Soroti East By-Election

He revealed that there are ongoing efforts for the opposition to front one candidate to avoid dividing the opposition vote.

“It is better to have one candidate for the opposition and this is why we are in discussions. There is a meeting scheduled for tomorrow Wednesday (today) at the FDC headquarters to try and harmonise positions towards having a single candidate”, he added.

Commenting about the fact that FDC had already fronted a candidate (Namatende) and whether he considered this a threat to his victory, Basalirwa said he had no problem with it.

“Nobody is faulting FDC for fronting a candidate because even in 2016, I competed with an FDC candidate. I don’t want anybody to create an impression that am at war with FDC,” Basalirwa said.

Bugiri Municipality constituency, formerly Bugiri town council is among the new administrative units in the country which will go for polls in June. Other municipalities are Apac, Kotido, Ibanda, Nebbi, Nebbi and Njeru.

Ms Namatende contested for Woman MP Bugiri district and came second in the 2016 elections losing to NRM’s Wejuli with a very small margin. In the same elections, Basalirwa contested for MP Bukholi North losing to Hon Mugoya Kyawa Guster.

However, Basalirwa claims that Namatende was the joint opposition candidate in 2016 elections and that she got a protest vote from the electorate against NRM secretary general Justine Kasule Lumumba who was already unpopular in the area yet she brought a candidate, which is not the case in the forthcoming elections in Bugiri Municipality where there are many opposition candidates.

Basalirwa garnered about 2,000 votes in Bukholi North but he says he lost because he miscalculated in his campaigning strategies.

“I abandoned the municipality because I thought I was already popular there and concentrated in rural areas. It was a mistake that I was not able to consolidate an area where I had won in the previous(2011) elections. They wouldn’t have defeated me if I had not abandoned the area the way I did last time,” he said.

In the 2016 presidential elections, Basalirwa abandoned long time FDC presidential flag bearer Dr Kizza Besigye and lined his support behind The Democratic Alliance candidate, John Patrick Amama Mbabazi. Critics say the move was a betrayal to FDC and that he can’t win their support in the municipality elections.

Post Views: 1,138
  • Facebook
  • Tweet
  • WhatsApp
  • Telegram
  • Email
Tags: Asuman BasalirwaBugiri Municipality electionsFDCJustice Forum

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Stories

Manufacturers to Meet Minister Nankabirwa on Increasing Energy Uptake in Uganda

NSSF Defends its Performance, Real Estate Investments Before Parliament Committee

Renowned British Sports Commentator Rob Walker in Uganda

Presidents Museveni and Ramaphosa to Attend Uganda- South Africa Business Summit

Uganda is More United than Ever, says Museveni at 42nd Tarehe Sita

Museveni Commends Revolutionaries, Calls for Continuous Transformation

SoftPower News

SoftPower News is a subsidiary of SoftPower Communications LLC, a Ugandan digital media group. Keep posted of the latest from Uganda and East Africa.
Plot 4B Malcolm X, Kololo
P.O Box 1497, Kampala - Uganda
Tel: +256-392-001-701
Email: info@softpower.ug

This news site is licenced by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC)

ADVERTISEMENT
  • News
  • Tourism & Travel
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Regional
  • Defence & Security
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • More

© SoftPower News

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Tourism & Travel
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion
  • Regional
    • Kenya
    • Rwanda
    • Tanzania
    • Burundi
    • South Sudan
    • DR Congo
  • Defence & Security
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • More
    • Agriculture
    • Africa
    • Columnists
    • Education
    • Health
      • COVID-19
    • International News
    • News in Pictures
    • OpEd
    • Pearl Of Africa
    • People
    • Politics
    • Special Reports
    • Women

© SoftPower News

error: Content is protected

Send this to a friend