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Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s disputed presidential election.
“I administratively referred the petition to the committee and I gave them two weeks to report back to the House,” said Among. “I saw iron sheets in Bukedea; I didn’t ask for them but I ordered that they should be given to government schools, innocently. I didn’t open a shop to sell them. Let’s wait for the committee report and this House will take a decision.”
A day after Philip Oucor, the official candidate of National Resistance Movement (NRM), lost the Serere County byelection, Capt Mike Mukula, the party’s National Vice Chairperson for Eastern Uganda, has rubbished allegations by the the ruling party’s Electoral Commission (EC) Chairman Dr Tanga Odoi that his actions cost the NRM victory.
Ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) leaders in Omoro District were on Thursday, February 23, 2023, left in shock after President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, who is also the party’s national chairman, refused to sign on a poster endorsing him as the NRM sole candidate for the 2026 presidential election.
Emmanuel Omoding, son to former MP Patrick Okabe, has been elected Serere County MP, replacing his father who died in December 2022.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Affairs Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has admitted that she received iron sheets from the Government of Uganda but denied any wrongdoing as the Karamoja iron sheets scandal rages on.
National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has spoken out reports of talks and dialogue with President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government.
Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has spoken out on allegations that she used the iron sheets categorized as relief items meant for Karamoja sub-region to roof her hotels.
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government, through its Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED), has announced tough budgetary measures for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as public servants. The measures for the 2023-2024 Financial Year (FY) touch on salary increment, travel abroad and vehicle purchase, among others.