Ugandan President Museveni, in power since 1986, to seek another term

Yoweri Museveni urges supporters to backmost his imaginativeness for the aboriginal arsenic helium seeks to tally for a grounds seventh term.

Uganda’s long-time President Yoweri Museveni has been confirmed to basal successful the January 2026 elections, arsenic he seeks to widen his astir 40-year regularisation successful the African country.

Museveni, who has been successful powerfulness since 1986, connected Tuesday urged supporters to backmost his imaginativeness for the aboriginal aft electoral officials adjacent the capital, Kampala, announced that the 81-year-old person would beryllium connected the ballot.

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The governing National Resistance Movement (NRM) enactment officially confirmed him successful June arsenic its statesmanlike candidate.

In a station connected X, Museveni thanked his supporters for entrusting him to tally again for the 2026-2031 term.

“In this economy, the GDP of Uganda has doubled presently successful the caller Kisanja from $34 cardinal to $66 billion,” helium wrote. He has promised to marque Uganda a $500bn system successful the adjacent 5 years.

“You person everything contiguous that you lacked successful the past: electricity, roads, telephones, manpower, the educated people, and peace. That’s wherefore we are being flooded by galore investors due to the fact that they are looking for a peaceful and profitable country wherever to invest,” helium added.

In a database of pledges for the adjacent term, Museveni said the party’s priorities would absorption connected wealthiness creation, education, infrastructure, crime, corruption, wellness and water.

Our priorities for this word include:

1. Wealth creation: Everybody should beryllium progressive successful the wealth economy.
2. Education: All children successful authorities superior and secondary schools should survey for free.
3. Infrastructure: Roads should beryllium tarmaced connected clip and support the… pic.twitter.com/KhDcNeyJaH

— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) September 23, 2025

Museveni came to powerfulness successful 1986 aft his NRM enactment waged a rebellion to depose the subject authorities of General Tito Okello.

After the NRM won the war, Museveni, the then-leader of the movement’s equipped group, declared himself president. Since then, the president has been elected successful consequent elections.

In 2017, an amendment to the constitution removed the property bounds for statesmanlike candidates, which had been acceptable astatine 75, allowing Museveni to proceed ruling the country.

But the leader’s main governmental opponent, Bobi Wine, a erstwhile musician, is expected to beryllium announced arsenic a campaigner successful the upcoming predetermination aboriginal this week.

During the 2021 elections, Wine secured 35 percent of the vote, with Museveni taking 58 percent successful his worst-ever result.

While Wine accused Museveni of alleged elector fraud and ballot stuffing, his show during the predetermination placed him arsenic the strongest challenger to Museveni’s rule.

Wine besides has a ample pursuing among working-class communities successful municipality areas, with his National Unity Platform enactment holding the astir seats of immoderate absorption enactment successful the nationalist assembly.