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The long-energy president of Uganda, 80-year-old Yvery Museven, has been declared the candidate of the ruling party in the presidential election next year, opening his path to seek to extend the power.
In his speech to accept Museven, he said he had answered the call and, if elected, would move on with his mission to turn Uganda into a “high average income country”.
Musevenya’s critics say he had ruled with an iron hand since he had seized power as a rebel leader in 1986.
He has won any election held since then, and the Constitution has been amended twice to eliminate age and time limit to allow him to stay in service.
Pop star Bobby wine is expected to be the main museum racer in the election scheduled for next January.
Wine said to the BBC in April That he would run against Museven if he had been nominated by his party, the national platform for unity, but became “more difficult” to be in opposition because of the increasing state repression.
“Being in the opposition in Uganda means being labeled terrorist,” he said.
Bobby guilt, whose real name is Robert Kagulani, lost the last election in 2021 to Museveni by 35% to 59% in a survey littered with charges of charging and opposition repression.
Another prominent opposition politician, Kizza Besigye, has been in detention since November after being charged with betrayal. He denies the claim, saying that his arrest is political.
In his speech to accept the National Resistance Movement Conference (NRM) on Saturday, Museven said he had led to stability and progress in Uganda.
He said it was essential that Uganda would not “miss the bus of history, as it happened in the past, when Europe was transformed and Africa into stagnation and was enslaved.”
Museveni added that he wanted Uganda to make a “quality jump” and become a “high side of the upper average income”.
“Other countries in Asia with less natural resources have done it. We can do it,” he added.