KAMPALA, Uganda — A Nigerian cleric known for making political prophecies across Africa has claimed that President Yoweri Museveni intends to hand power to his son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, but warned that the Ugandan military chief faces what he suggested would be an attempted assassination threat before any such transition can occur.
Primate Elijah Ayodele, the leader of Nigeria’s INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, said in a recent prophetic message that Uganda is approaching a critical political moment in which Museveni is preparing the ground for Muhoozi to eventually assume the presidency. He further alleged that unnamed actors are plotting against the Chief of Defence Forces and urged heightened security around him.
The claims could not be independently verified, and neither the Ugandan government nor Muhoozi’s office had publicly responded to the remarks at the time of writing.
Even so, the prophecy touches on one of the most enduring and controversial questions in Ugandan politics: whether Museveni, who has ruled the country since 1986, intends to be succeeded by his son.
That debate has persisted for more than a decade and has become known in political circles as the “Muhoozi Project” — a phrase that first gained national prominence in 2013 when retired Gen. David Sejusa, then one of Uganda’s most senior military officers, alleged that a covert succession plan existed to install Muhoozi as president. Sejusa further claimed that opponents of the plan within the military and state apparatus faced threats. The allegations triggered a political storm, though the government denied them and Muhoozi himself rejected suggestions that he was being groomed to inherit power.
At the time, Sejusa’s claims were treated by government officials as baseless conspiracy theories. Yet the controversy permanently altered Uganda’s political vocabulary. What had once been whispered speculation became a mainstream national debate.
Over the years that followed, Muhoozi’s rise through the military hierarchy did little to silence the discussion.
The Sandhurst-trained officer commanded the elite Special Forces Command, held several senior military positions and was steadily promoted through the ranks before being appointed Chief of Defence Forces in 2024, placing him at the apex of Uganda’s military establishment.
Meanwhile, his supporters openly embraced the once-taboo “Muhoozi Project” label. Political mobilization tours, birthday celebrations attended by senior politicians and military figures, and the growth of his political network increasingly fueled perceptions that a succession campaign was underway. In 2024, many of those activities were reorganized under the Patriotic League of Uganda, a pressure group widely viewed as being aligned with Muhoozi’s political ambitions.
Muhoozi himself has often sent mixed signals.
In March 2023, he publicly declared that he would run for president. A year later, however, he announced that he would not contest the 2026 election and instead endorsed Museveni for another term, saying he had been directed by God to focus on the army.
That decision did little to end speculation.
Supporters argue that Muhoozi remains the most likely successor to Museveni whenever the veteran leader eventually leaves office. Critics, meanwhile, contend that his growing influence within both the military and politics reflects an attempt to transform Uganda’s republican system into a de facto hereditary succession.
The issue has become even more sensitive as Muhoozi has emerged as one of the country’s most outspoken public figures. His social media posts have frequently generated controversy, drawing attention both inside Uganda and abroad. Some have involved foreign policy pronouncements, while others have targeted opposition politicians and critics.
Museveni has never publicly designated an heir.
The president, who seized power after a five-year guerrilla war and has remained in office for four decades, has consistently maintained that leadership transitions should be determined through constitutional processes. Yet the persistence of the Muhoozi succession debate reflects the reality that few figures within the ruling National Resistance Movement possess the military influence, political visibility and proximity to power that Muhoozi enjoys.
Ayodele’s latest prophecy arrives as Uganda prepares for another election cycle and amid renewed scrutiny of the future of the country’s leadership.
Whether his prediction proves accurate remains to be seen. But by linking Muhoozi’s political future to both an impending transfer of power and a potential security threat, the Nigerian cleric has once again thrust the succession question back into public conversation.
More than a decade after Gen. Sejusa first raised alarm about an alleged plan to position Muhoozi as Uganda’s next president, the central question remains unresolved: Is the Muhoozi Project merely a political myth, or the long-term succession strategy of one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders?
For now, the answer remains one of Uganda’s most closely watched political mysteries.
Muhoozi was previously hinted on his uncle Salim Saleh being the chosen successor, while an American prophet predicted that Muhoozi’s sister would land a big job. (See Details
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Meanwhile, another prominent prophet has revealed that God told him how one of the elderly presidents in Africa was sick with prostate cancer and how he must hand over power to someone younger before he dies and his country descends into chaos,, as detailed
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