Kampala, Uganda: The Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) Secretary General, Hon David Kabanda, has revealed that their faction’s 60 percent win in the just-concluded NRM Central Executive Committee (CEC) elections, as a signal of a power shift inside Uganda’s dominant party.
“A transition is already underway,” Mr Kabanda declared while speaking to journalists on Monday, September 01, in Kampala. “Only three senior members remain in CEC: the chairman, Al-hajji Moses Kigongo, and Col Tom Butime.”
Among the PLU-backed wins he cited is Speaker of Parliament Annet Anita Among, who has openly championed Gen Muhoozi’s political future, branding him President Museveni’s natural successor saw off her rival, the First Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca Kadaga, for the 2nd National Vice Chairperson (Female) slot, while Minister of Microfinance Haruna Kasolo took home the central region slot.
Other shifts included ICT Minister Chris Baryomunsi losing the western vice chairmanship to PLU’s Jonard Asiimwe, and Capt Mike Mukula stepping aside for Mr Calvin Echodu, a stronghold PLU affiliate in eastern Uganda.
In northern Uganda, Government Chief Whip Hamson Denis Obua, who is also attached to the PLU faction, clinched the vice chairmanship, earning praise from Gen Muhoozi as a “true disciple of NRM.”
Kabanda strongly asserted that PLU members played a decisive role in the recent NRM primaries, claiming victories across multiple party structures and in the powerful CEC, where he said allies of Gen Muhoozi now control majority of the top positions.
He further claimed that even in the NRM Primaries, 70 percent of the party’s parliamentary flagbearers and 60 percent of local government flagbearers were PLU members, further underlining the faction’s growing grip within the ruling party.
Kabanda says their patron, Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces and First Son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, will soon appoint coordinators at every governance level, from village to sub-region, to drive grassroots mobilisation ahead of 2026.
Under the PLU Chairman, Kabanda said he has been directed to relaunch their countrywide mobilisation drive that aims to deliver President Yoweri Museveni the 80 percent electoral target he earlier announced on social media.
“I have been directed by the chairman to announce that the Patriotic League of Uganda will resume its activities to ensure that the NRM flagbearer, Gen Museveni, achieves the 80 percent threshold he communicated a few months ago,” Mr Kabanda said.
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