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The nomination of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine the head of National Unity Platform (NUP) to run for presidency in the 2026 General elections has been met with bad news from the Electoral Commission over signatures.
According to the party’s Secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya, he says the Commission had informed them that the signatures they submitted are inadequate for guarantee Bobi Wine’s nomination for presidency.
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By law according to the Presidential Elections Act particularly Section 10 (1) b “the nomination is supported by not less than one hundred voters in each of at least two thirds of all the districts in Uganda“. Each candidate is supposed to submit atleast 100 signatures from 98 districts.
Now Rubongoya says the Electoral Commission has been playing hide and seek even when the party has been pushing them to confirm whether the party has met the threshold of the signatures needed only to be told today ahead of the nominations on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“We’ve got information from the Electoral Commission, like we said yesterday we’ve been pushing them everyday to give us an update on the signatures we submitted so that we can be able to pay nomination fees to be able to nominate our presidential candidate Honorable Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. Few minutes ago, today is Friday afternoon, we’ve got information they’re saying NUP did not submit enough signatures….” says Rubongoya
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NUP’s David Lewis Rubongoya says the Electoral Commission claims they failed to secure enough signatures for Robert Kyagulanyi’s Presidential nomination in next year’s elections.
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— NTV UGANDA (@ntvuganda) September 19, 2025
Now NUP has only this weekend to submit the remaining number of signatures if Bobi Wine is to be on the ballot.
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