The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) has not rejected a bid to have Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba as Uganda’s next president, Party Secretary General Richard Todwong has clarified.
In a statement on the NRM’s official social media handles, Rt Hon Todwong dismissed reports claiming that the party's top decision-making body, the Central Executive Committee (CEC), rejected Gen. Kainerugaba’s presidential bid during a meeting held on November 10, 2026.
“My attention has been drawn to an online news story regarding a closed-door CEC meeting that took place on 10/11/2026. In the story, the author claimed that the NRM party rejected a bid to position General Muhoozi Kainerugaba as Uganda’s next president. That story is completely false,” Todwong stated.
The NRM Secretary General emphasized that no decision rejecting Gen. Kainerugaba was taken at the meeting, noting that the CEC routinely convenes to deliberate on pertinent political, social, and economic issues affecting Ugandans. He added that the party will formally communicate any official resolutions through its established channels at the appropriate time.
“Please disregard any false online news that has not been officially released by the Party,” he urged.
The NRM statement leaves no room for doubt regarding the party's official stance, making it clear that the CEC has not rejected Gen. Kainerugaba’s presidential bid and that any official decision on the matter will only come directly from the party.
Earlier on Thursday, Kasambya County MP Daudi Kabanda, who is also the Executive Secretary in the Office of the National Chairman of the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU), also rejected the reports on X, dismissing claims of a CEC rejection as “false information” and “propaganda.”
It should be remembered that PLU’s grassroots mobilisation under the TUKO PAMOJA alliance with the NRM helped deliver a decisive 72% victory for President Museveni in the last presidential election—the NRM’s biggest win since 1996, according to PLU officials.
