Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has been nominated unopposed to contest for both the National Resistance Circulate (NRM) occasion chairmanship and since the occasion’s presidential flagbearer in the 2026 general elections.
He rapidly after explained intimately the two the the clarification why he’s calling for one more duration of time in place of industrial.
“What, then, is subsequent, and why am I coming ahead to acknowledge to the millions of Ugandans who include been ordering me with the slogan: “Tova ku foremost” — “Attain now not saunter away the foremost electricity line”? President Museveni asked.
“It is for two causes. Reason quantity 1, is to work with the NRM constructions, to account for the importance of the 6 aspects which might perhaps well maybe be very indispensable in guaranteeing that Uganda and, perhaps by instance other aspects of Africa, attain now not, all but again, miss the bus of historical previous as befell in the previous when Europe transformed and Africa stagnated and used to be enslaved.”
The 2d cause, he added, “is to include leaders and a occasion that understands and is dedicated to the want for a qualitative soar from the assign of the lower heart profits Country of USD 66 billion by the pause of June 2026 to a excessive heart profits Country of USD 500 billion in the next few years.” CLICK TO READ FULL SPEECH
He mentioned this rapidly after Dr. Tanga Odoi, chairperson of the NRM Electoral Price, formally nominated Museveni for both positions, confirming that he used to be the sole aspirant who fulfilled the total nomination requirements. Odoi mentioned Museveni submitted all wanted paperwork, at the side of a stout space of nomination forms, respectable bank rate slips, and verified endorsements from now not lower than 151 districts across the nation.
“The aspirant is one, and it is President Museveni,” Odoi declared.
Museveni used to be furthermore nominated unopposed as chairperson of the NRM occasion, a disclose he at the moment holds. Almost at this time after his nomination, President Museveni expressed gratitude to his correct team and seconders who helped glean endorsement signatures across Uganda’s districts, acknowledging the insist it took to meet all requirements.
After the nomination, Museveni outlined six key pillars that he says will guide Uganda’s trend in his subsequent termn.
The President indispensable that Uganda’s endured transformation must be anchored on six foremost ingredients: peace, trend, wealth introduction, job introduction, glean admission to to wanted products and companies equivalent to healthcare and education, and spirituality.
He emphasized that these ingredients are crucial for any nation aiming for sustainable progress and prolonged-duration of time balance. He furthermore warned towards any threats to nationwide peace, mentioning that Uganda will now not tolerate actions that threat plunging the nation support into battle.
“Peace and safety are conditions for trend and wealth introduction,” he indispensable. On the grief of poverty, Museveni wired that wealth and poverty are particular person experiences. While executive affords infrastructure and shared public items, he argued, folks and households must hold finish accountability for actively pursuing wealth.
President Museveni observed that despite nationwide progress, poverty stays standard in urban ghettos. He mentioned that many youths live stagnant because they predict executive jobs as a replace of pursuing other alternatives.
He called for bigger enhance for inner most sector investment, warning that some traders are being wretched by operational challenges. He emphasized the want for a more enabling ambiance to accomplish jobs and drive economic expansion.
In his contend with, Museveni informed Ugandans to putrid their enhance on historical and most attention-grabbing realities in assign of emotion. He mirrored on Uganda’s turbulent post-independence duration, marked by political fragmentation and institutional collapse.
Between 1962 and 1971, he mentioned, the nation skilled the breakdown of key institutions equivalent to the military, judiciary, and civil carrier. He cited the assassinate of Chief Justice Benedicto Kiwanuka as a stark instance of the lawlessness that characterised that period.
Museveni mentioned that since the NRM got here to energy in 1986, the chief has centered on liberation, stabilization, and modernization. He highlighted progress in diversifying the economy, expanding infrastructure, and promoting rate addition in agriculture and enterprise—at the side of in automobile manufacturing and mineral processing.
He reported that Uganda’s economy has grown 16-fold since 1986, lifting the nation out of the Least Developed Countries category. Nonetheless, he cautioned that bigger progress shall be accomplished if corruption is decisively addressed. The President expressed optimism that Uganda might perhaps well maybe rapidly attain heart-profits assign, with a GDP of 500 billion shillings, which he described as a “qualitative soar,” equipped that governance challenges admire corruption are overcome.
He furthermore printed rising curiosity from global traders, at the side of those attracted to manufacturing gold jewelry locally, citing Uganda’s pure gold reserves. As he seeks one more duration of time, Museveni asked for divine guidance and dedicated to working with NRM constructions to make certain that Uganda doesn’t fail to price the realm transformation that bypassed Africa throughout Europe’s industrial revolution.
Museveni will now wait to contest with candidates nominated by other political parties in the 2026 general elections.
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FULL SPEECH
H.E. the Vice President
Rt. Hon Speaker
Chief Justice
The NRM Vice-Chairman,
The total other leaders and the supporters of the NRM and all Ugandans.
Greetings. I are seeking to thank the NRM Electoral Price for nominating me. I hope the total membership of the NRM and its constructions, will enhance my candidature as the Chairman of the NRM for the 2025-2031 and furthermore as flag-bearer for the NRM in the Presidential contest for the 2026-2031. Why? It is because I stand here on behalf of the very NRM that began as a student slip in 1965. That nascent student slip, emerged in a in spite of every thing fragmented landscape, the set polarization used to be following tribes and non secular denominations. That political fragmentation, made governance very now not going because no fragment might perhaps well maybe muster a majority in an election. The fragmentation, furthermore might perhaps well maybe now not enable institutions to be constructed up. The sufferer institutions incorporated the
Navy, the Judiciary, the Civil Service, etc. With the two fragmentations — political and institutional — got here the constitutional collapse in the make of the battle between Mutesa and Obote in 1966 and the Idi Amin Coup of 1971. The constitutional snarl, used to be destroyed throughout the foremost 10 years of Independence.
The next casualty, used to be the little enclave economy (island economy) of the 3Cs and 3Ts. The 3Cs and 3Ts, I in spite of every thing include told you, many times, were: coffee, cotton and copper and the 3Ts were: tobacco, tea and tourism. Cotton had disappeared, copper had disappeared, tea had disappeared and so had tourism. It is easiest coffee and tobacco, that were gentle limping on. There used to be acute shortages (ebura) of all “wanted items” as they were being called — meaning soap, salt, paraffin, textiles, sodas, beers etc. Our alcohol drinkers, were being rescued by “Primus beer” from Burundi and “Muniki” from Congo.
Therefore, by 1986, the tall Country of Uganda, had 3 mega traumas: Political fragmentation precipitated by sectarianism main to the collapse of the democratic constitutional snarl; the collapse of the institutions of Train, equivalent to the Navy; and the
collapse of the economy. Given all this and standing the set we’re these days in the 365 days of our Lord 2025, we can look that in the closing 60 years, the NRM has been a participant and, for as a rule, a fling-setter of the efforts to attain the following in the pursuits of Uganda:
- Liberation between 1965 and 1986;
- Stabilization between 1986-2025;
- Minimal Financial recovery by restoring the 3Cs and 3Tcs, as wisely as casting off ebura
(shortages);
- Expanding the narrow enclave economy;
(5)Diversifying the economy by commercializing merchandise that were previously idea to be for easiest subsistence, equivalent to maize, milk, bananas, fruits, pork, poultry, eggs, sugar-cane, cassava, etc; (6) rate addition to those uncooked-affords;
(7)Introducing, by approach to the intensified and expanded education system, the guidelines economy of automobiles, vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, electrical objects, computer assembling, etc.
What does this mean? It skill that the NRM, its cadres and the loads that include supported them over the years, include been participants in and, for as a rule, leaders of, the efforts to liberate Uganda from sectarian fragmentation and political collapse; perform obvious its economic recovery; be obvious the expansion and expansion of its economy; make certain that the initiating of social-economic transformation of the society begins so that Uganda becomes a as much as date Country; and begins the fight for the commercial and political integration of Uganda into Africa so that the Wealth Creators of Africa include a respectable Market to soak up their merchandise.
What include been the penalties of this? The penalties include been liberation, democratization, peace and an economy that is now USD 61 billion by the in a foreign country Alternate skill and USD 172.2 billion by the PPP skill. The economy has expanded 16 times since 1986 from USD 3.9 billion, essentially based completely on Finance. This implies that Uganda is now a lower heart profits Country with a GDP per capita of USD 1,263 for its inhabitants of 46 million Folks. This implies that Uganda is now not any longer a least Developed Country (LDC). You most most likely can peruse at the total other statistics. They are comely if now not amazing in lots of circumstances. Nonetheless, we can attain noteworthy better, especially if we set away with corruption.
What, then, is subsequent and why am I coming ahead to acknowledge to the millions of Ugandans who include been ordering me with the slogan: “Tova ku foremost” — “Attain now not saunter away the foremost electricity line”?
It is for two causes.
Reason quantity 1, is to work with the NRM constructions, to account for the importance of the 6 aspects which might perhaps well maybe be very indispensable in guaranteeing that Uganda and, perhaps by instance other aspects of Africa, attain now not, all but again, miss the bus of historical previous as befell in the previous when Europe transformed and Africa stagnated and used to be enslaved. In my most as much as date speeches, I in spite of every thing include been answering the query that covers these aspects. The query is: “the set does prosperity reach from and what are the factors that facilitate it?
I in spite of every thing include been identifying 6 aspects. These are: Peace (no battle and modify of crime); trend (entunguuka, enkulakulana, dongo-lobo, apol); wealth (obugaiga, obugagga, lonyo, abar, lonyi); jobs (emirimo, tic, assuam); products and companies (obuhereza, obuwereza, aijanakin, equivalent to health, education, spirituality, etc); and markets for our merchandise by approach to regional integration. This working out, helps us to, as an illustration, understand the set the wide majority of the jobs in a developed Country, reach from. It is from the inner most sector — commercial farming, factories, products and companies (hotels, transport, etc) and ICT (equivalent to BPOs); now not from the Authorities. Failure to understand this by the Country and the families, leads to futile efforts and wasted time. In the quick time of Uganda’s recovery, as an illustration, factories include created 1.2 million jobs in comparison with easiest 480,000 jobs of the total Public Service. Agriculture
3,610,064 jobs; and Products and companies 5,042,188 jobs. The commercial farms, the factories, the carrier companies (hotels, transport companies, inner most colleges, inner most hospitals, etc) or ICT companies, are wealth of Non-public Folks, however they furthermore accomplish jobs for other Ugandans. That nexus needs to be obvious to all of us. Wealth, creates jobs. About a of the wealth companies might perhaps well maybe furthermore be Authorities — equivalent to National Water, Uganda Railways, Uganda Airways, NEC, etc. They’ll include the equivalent nexus — wealth and jobs, supported by peace and trend
(infrastructure).
The 2d cause, is to include leaders and a occasion that understands and is dedicated to the want for a qualitative soar from the assign of the lower heart profits Country of USD 66 billion by the pause of June 2026 to a excessive heart profits Country of USD 500 billion in the next few years. About a of our Folks focus on of 2040. That is too some distance for me. I attain now not look why we can now not perform it earlier if we’re in spite of every thing aggressive in the pursuit of the fair and set away with corruption. Why attain I snarl this? It is because noteworthy of our USD 61 billion economy these days, is uncooked-affords. Our coffee, as de-husked coffee beans, brings in USD 2.5 per kg. Yet, the one who roasts, grinds and packs the coffee, earns from USD 25 – 40 per kg. That is how the total coffee rising Countries of the World derive USD 25 billion out of the total rate of USD 460 billion and Germany, a non-coffee rising Country, earns USD 65 billion from coffee. Since we’ve got a wide spectrum of uncooked-affords of agriculture, uncooked-affords of minerals, contemporary water resources and woodland merchandise, we’ve got an gargantuan attainable if we add rate to all of them or most of them. By refining tin ore to ninety nine.85% purity, we derive USD 33.66 per kg as a replace of USD 13.6 – 16.4 for the unprocessed tin ore.
After we purify gold to ninety nine.90% purity as a replace of the earlier ……%, tin to ninety nine.85% purity as a replace of the earlier 75% purity, copper to ninety nine.ninety nine% purity as a replace of the earlier 95%, we attain now not easiest derive more money from that commodity and accomplish more jobs for our teens, we furthermore attract the jewellery makers to reach to Uganda and perform the jewellery there, the factories that favor to exhaust tin will reach as will the factories that favor to exhaust pure copper equivalent to the cables industries, those making transformers and the opposite electrical objects that exhaust copper. This vertical and horizontal integrations of the sectors, will vastly amplify the economy.
Add to all this, the guidelines economy of vehicle-mobiles, vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, electronics, the exhaust of our highly trained manpower, the transformation shall be like a flash. Therefore, the 2d clarification for the NRM striking ahead my title, is to trigger the qualitative soar of Uganda into a excessive upper heart profits Country in the next few years, ideally some distance ahead of 2040 — which is 15 years from now. Assorted Countries in Asia with less pure resources, did it. We’re going to attain it. We’ve already accomplished the lower heart profits assign by comely recovery, diversification and quantitative expansion with restricted rate addition. With most rate addition to the total commercially viable uncooked-affords and the guidelines economy, we can perform the qualitative soar to excessive heart profits assign and, in the slay, a foremost World assign. God has enabled me to lead the NRM for the closing 60 years by approach to the phases I in spite of every thing include outlined above. I have faith God will look us by approach to the qualitative soar. I’m willing to perform my contribution in the following five years segment, both as President and as Chairman of the NRM.
As we include an even time the victories of the NRM in the closing 60 years, we must now not neglect to acknowledge the earlier struggles of the Bataka-bbu of the 1920s and IK Musaazi and his colleagues between the 1930s and the Fifties under the Farmers’ Circulate and the UNC. Their efforts, pushed Uganda towards Independence. It is a pity that the later sectarian politics, undermined their efforts.
I will now not pause this quick contend with, without congratulating the millions of the newly elected NRM constructions’ leaders from the villages upwards. It is so elegant to watch so many, mainly younger Folks, constructing as the novel cut of the NRM leaders. It is now your probability to disclose that that you might perhaps well lead wisely. In snarl to put together politics efficiently as we, your predecessors, managed to attain, you’ll want to always know that productive politics is about ideology (philosophy, ideology and plan) and now not comely about biology (age, gender, etc) and “jobology” (careerism). We’ve long gone this some distance attributable to being guided by and working for, the three historical missions and the four ideological tips. These are: prosperity for the Folks of Africa; strategic safety for Africa; and Undugu (brotherhood) of the Africans; and, then, the four ideological tips of patriotism, Pan-Africanism, socio-economic transformation and democracy. We agree or disagree with you over these and now not every other cause. If this is your compass, things are easy because they are guided by tips. That is how, as an illustration, we were ready to work with Folks, even after we weren’t completely agreed with their general disclose. That is how we labored with Binaisa in 1980, Yusufu Lule between 1981-1985 when he died, etc. Even with Obote, shall we include labored together or the DP in 1979-1980, in the occasion that they’d been as deliberate as we were, referring to the minimum that that you might perhaps well imagine programmes. With us, what is the set to birth is now not the who however the what. “What is to be done and why?”, as Lenin wrote. The interpersonal frictions we gaze, are now not wholesome. It shall be the inter-ideological contestation that we must hold finish care of.
I, all but again, congratulate the millions of the novel NRM leaders and we can look programs to enhance them cheaply. My immediate advice to you is to be wealth creators when you happen to are now not one already, so that you attain now not peruse at management as a mode of living — job (murimo). Political management is about okwerwanako (the Folks electing you to fight for their pursuits) and now not about being a mupakasi (omukozi ow’ empeera — the employed shepherd that Jesus talked about in the E book of (John 10:11-18). In the occasion you are now not but a wealth creator already, you’ll want to always look how extra Authorities programmes equivalent to PDM and Emyooga will let you to birth becoming one. Then, the occasion can look programs to enhance a couple of of the classes with operational costs. If our generation had had a jobist mentality, Uganda would never include been rescued. All of us — Kategaya, Rwaheeru, Mwesigwa-Shadowy, Mwesiga Martin, Ruzindana, Birihanze, Dennis Echou, Myself, etc, had wisely-paying Authorities jobs. On memoir of conviction, we left those jobs to fight for the salvation of Uganda. The set would Uganda be, if we had now not done that? What attain the younger generations learn from that? You attain now not must fight with palms now. Nonetheless, you’ll want to always volunteer to support your Folks by defending their respectable pursuits towards corruption, fraud, illegal activity, land evictions, etc. Here’s the position of principled political management.
Lengthy stay the sixty years of victories and progress.
Lengthy stay the efforts of the Ugandan freedom fighters.
Lengthy stay the qualitative soar to a USD 500 billion economy.
All glory to God our creator and sustainer.
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Customary (Rtd) Ssabalwanyi
Ssamalungu
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA
