KAMPALA, UGANDA: Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the first son of President Yoweri Museveni has officially announced his bid to run for Presidency in 2026 general elections.
Gen. Muhoozi who is also the commander of Land Forces in the UPDF broke the news in a Tuesday morning tweet with photos of his supporters and his “to-be electoral poster” come 2026.
Muhoozi, in a brief tweet, said; “They were joking with us until they saw how strong we are! Uganda is ours! No one shall ever intimidate us! Uganda belongs to Team MK!”
Born April 24, 1974, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Muhoozi during his birthday celebrations at Lugogo Cricket Oval over the weekend revealed that the successfulness of his event signaled a strong and vibrant youth movement in Uganda, whose programs must be prioritized.
“What this whole MK 48 movement is probably teaching Ugandans is that there is a very strong and vibrant youth movement in this country. I think it is the strongest force in Uganda right now,” Gen Muhoozi said amid cheers from hundreds that turned up to celebrate his 48th birthday, some of whom referred to him as “our next President”.
In a mockery tweet, the First lady and mother to Gen. Muhoozi Mrs. Janet Kataha Museveni in a Monday also tweeted expressing gratitude to Uganda for showering her son with love but her tweet to many scholars contained a powerful message as far as Muhoozi being heir to the aging President is concerned.
“I was proud to see so many youth in the streets of Kampala on the weekend, showing solidarity to Muhoozi and to the peace we have in Uganda. You have grown up in this peace, you must strive to maintain it,” Mrs. Museveni said in a tweet.
“My prayer for you, Muhoozi, is that you grow closer to God in this next phase of your life because that is where every good thing begins,” she added in a separate tweet.
Kagame returns to Uganda after 4 years
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame was over the weekend on a rare visit to Uganda after 4 years of disparity between the two countries, and his spectacular visit was indeed to attend a Gen. Muhoozi birthday dinner at State House in Entebbe.
Kagame had last visited Uganda in March 2018 on Museveni’s invitation for private talks on bilateral, regional and international issues.
His visit was confirmed by a Rwanda Broadcasting Agency that said Kagame had arrived in Kampala to meet his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni and attend the 48th birthday party of Museveni’s powerful son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who has been instrumental in the rapprochement between the two neighbours.
Kainerugaba has played a key role in repairing long hostile relations with Kigali, including holding talks with Kagame that led to a reopening of the land border in January after three years of closure.
The Ugandan high commission in Kigali said Kagame was on “a private visit”, adding that Kainerugaba and Security Minister Jim Muhwezi were among the senior government officials who received the Rwandan leader.’
To many scholars, the birthday party for Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, was not a celebration of an event that happened 48 years ago. It was okwanjura (formal introduction) of the crown prince and heir to the Ugandan throne.
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