PRESIDENT MUSEVENI REJECTS ENDORSEMENT FOR 2026 SOLE CANDIDATURE, URGES UGANDANS TO FOCUS ON WEALTH CREATION

By Emmy Daniel Ojara

 OMORO. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Thursday declined to sign his endorsement for the 2026 sole Presidential candidature but instead asked Ugandans to focus on wealth creation.

The President said that there is time for everything, noting that right now Ugandans should focus on wealth creation through calculative agriculture.

The President had been requested by the leaders and a section of voters in Omoro district to sign on a board committing himself to contest in the 2026 presidential race.

He was in Keto Village, Lakwana Sub County in Omoro district /touring the MK Modern Organic and Natural Products Farm and factory owned by Dr. Pascal Osiri.

The Omoro district chairperson Douglas Peter Okello alias Okao had in his speech noted that he is representing voters in Omoro district who had from their wisdom taken a decision and endorsed President Museveni as the sole candidate for the 2026 general elections.

Okao who was clowned in a yellow T-shirt said that the decision was reached by voters in the eighteen administrative units in the district.

His motion was supported by the Omoro district Woman Member of Parliament Catherine Lamwaka and MK Modern Organic and Natural Products Director Pascal Osiri who was joined in ululations by dozens of voters.

 However, in his response the president declined to sign on the board saying that he do not want to be diverted, he instead urged the electorates and leaders to concentrate on wealth creation and chasing poverty.

“Regarding the elections of 2026 I thank you very much for proposing to support the old man but let’s handle that at the right time. Let us cook and dish the food, don’t bring food when we are still cooking. Let’s concentrate on chasing poverty,” he said.

The President lectured the voters on commercial farming on the four-acre model which includes planting an acre of coffee, an acre of fruits, an acre of pasture, and food, commercial agriculture, and irrigation practices in arid conditions.

Others he said are poultry farming in the backyard for eggs, piggery, fish farming for those near wetlands, and also dairy farming.

Prime Minister Robinah Nabanjja who was present at the event was later seen convincing the electorates and leaders that she will take the initiative to endorse the President`s sole candidature. The President later visited another farm in Paicho Sub County, Gulu district, and Oding Youth Skilling Hub in Unyama Sub County, Gulu district.