The National Unity Platform in Mukono district has petitioned the district electoral commission complaining about the scandals that appear in the youth election in two parishes including Ntawo Ward and Ggulu ward both in Mukono Central Division in Mukono.
The district's chairperson and Mukono MP, Betty Bakireke Nambooze, filed the complaint on behalf of the party. District Electoral Commission Returning Officer Mark Muganzi Mayanja told New Vision that they had already received the complaints and had sent them to the Electoral Commission's legal department to determine the next steps.
“We received a petition from the area member of parliament, Honourable Betty Nambooze Bakireke, on behalf of her party, NUP, and her candidates, where she was petitioning against the results from two wards within the municipality, which are Ggulu Ward and Ntawo. That petition was received after the elections were held, results declared on the 7th of July.”
Muganzi added that the petition has been forwarded to the legal department for management. However, the nominations of candidates, which took place for two days, the 9th and the 10th of July, 2025, were concluded successfully.
Muganzi also told us that in their analysis, as the election officials, youth elections are going well in general but warned those who think about running away from the election after starting with the intention of cancelling it that the law allows them to set up a symbol of their party, and then the election continues.
He also urged all those who went through at the sub-county level to go and register at their sub-counties before the deadline, and then they will run for the race starting next week.
Like any other exercise where elections are held, he added that there is contestation, where some people will win and some people will lose. And those who win will take the victory, and those who lose will feel disadvantaged. They had a very peaceful exercise in the district.
“There were no issues of violence noted anywhere. The commission officials, parties, candidates, and security worked hand in hand to make sure that the polling process happened in a tranquil environment. So, we had no issues of fighting and violence.”
He further more highlighted on the net election at sub county level for special interest group committees, starting with the older persons on the 14th of July, 2025, then people with disabilities voting for their committees on the 16th of July, and finally, they shall have the sub-county youth committee elections happening on the 18th of July, 2025.
He called upon the people of the district, especially those that have gone through the parish elections, because they are the ones who are forming the electoral college that will be voting for the sub-county special interest group committees, to go and pick their forms at these venues, fill in those forms and return them.
Those who are party candidates were also advised to get the endorsement of their parties because they cannot change their party at the sub-county level. They simply have to move to their party that endorsed them from the village to the parish to the sub-county.
“Get your endorsement, those who are independent candidates, fill in the form and return it. As long as you meet the nomination requirement, you shall be nominated. Let's take time, observe the procedure.”
The leaders of Mukono Municipality, led by Mukono district speaker Betty Nakasi Hope and councillor Hellen Nankya from the Ggulu ward area, condemned the scandal and demanded the rerun of the election.
The NRM, led by Joseph Wamala, have laughed at the NUP, saying that of the 11 villages that make up the district, nine villages have been won by them without any defeat, and attributes the petition as baseless with no substantial evidence.
