The Ntungamo District NRM Returning Officer has declared Yona Musinguzi the ruling party’s official flagbearer for the Ntungamo Municipality election.
The official declaration followed voting in seven villages on Monday, September 8, 2025.
In these seven polling stations, voting did not take place on July 17, 2025, leaving hundreds of voters disenfranchised.
Musinguzi’s four opponents, Philip Ankwasa, Edward Beyendeza, Michael Katureebe, and Eric Kacafu Nuwagira had run to the NRM Electoral Disputes Tribunal to challenge his victory.
The four listed grounds like vote rigging, obstruction of voters, and solicitation of votes on polling day as reasons enough for a fresh election to be ordered.
But the NRM Tribunal ruled that fresh voting should happen in only seven polling stations or villages where there were 9,966 voters.
The number of disefranchised voters was thought significant enough to eclipse Musinguzi’s marging of victory of 3,405 votes.
““A new election shall be conducted in the polling stations/cells that did not vote namely, Cell 6, Cell 8, Kinoni, Cell 3, Nyabubare, Nyakihanga, and Cell 9, to be concluded within twenty-one (21) days from the date of this ruling,” the tribunal ruled.
Maria B Mirembe, the Ntungamo District NRM Returning Officer, made the official declaration after the end of voting in the seven villages.
Results declared by Mirembe indicate that Musinguzi, the incumbent Ntungamo Municipality MP, got up to 5,740 votes or 71 per cent of the 8,114 votes cast in the election first held in July 2025.
His closest challenger Philip Ankwasa got about 13 per cent or 1,081 votes, followed by Michael Katureebe with 791 votes or 10 per cent.
Edward Beyendeza got 423 votes or five per cent while Eric Kacafu Nuwagira trailed with 79 votes or one per cent.
“I therefore declare Musinguzi Yona who has polled the highest number of votes, 5,740 representing 71% as the duly elected NRM flagbearer for Ntungamo Municipality Member of Parliament 2025,” declared Mirembe.
You can read the lists of winners and losers of NRM CEC elections, and NRM parliamentary primaries’ disputes Here and There.
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