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Internal affairs minister Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire has spoken out on reports that he hates Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son to his boss President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni.

Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni seemed to have paused his son’s 2026 presidential ambitions after Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s MK Movement became the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU), a civic organization registered with the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) – and not a political party registered with the Electoral Commission (EC).

Internal affairs minister Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire’s son Che Otafiire is not about to see first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s campaigners like David Kabanda say bad things about his father and get away with it.

Ugandan opposition leaders Dr Kizza Besigye and Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine have castigated after President Yoweri Museveni reconstituted the Electoral Commission (EC), filling it with his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) cadres ahead of the 2026 presidential election.

In power since 1986, Ugandan long-serving elderly president says he is ready to pack his bags and leave for his retirement country home of Rwakitura in Kiruhura District, about 250km southwest of the capital Kampala.

Uganda’s first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba may have to wait longer to ascend to Uganda’s top office after his father Gen (Rtd) Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni hinted on running for the presidency in 2026.

SUCCESSION: Some powerful members of President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s First Family are said to be in the queue to take over from the elderly Ugandan leader in 2026 – or at least in the year he may choose or be forced to retire.

National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine seems unready to publicly apologize for labelling Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa’s son, an…

Supporters of Ugandan first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s MK Movement have attacked Kizza Besigye’s son Anselm after the veteran opposition politician claimed that Museveni’s son and…