KAMPALA– President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is also the National Chairman of the National Resistance Movement has today launched the update of the party register ahead of 2026 elections.
The launch of the display, update and registration of all party members in all villages countrywide took place at the party headquarters Kyadondo Road, Nakasero in Kampala.
While addressing the party members, President Museveni urged the party cadres to clearly understand the four core principles of the NRM which include Patriotism, Pan Africanism, socio-economic transformation and democracy, so that they are able to solve the problems of Ugandans.
The President further tasked the cadres to intensify mobilization and sensitization of Ugandans in order to cause the much-desired socio-economic transformation in the country.
“Even the politics of identity based on tribe or religion is pushed by people who don’t know anything about wealth creation because as a wealth creator, I don’t think about tribes”, He said.
President Museveni on the other hand, rallied the leaders to mobilize Ugandans to create wealth through the four sectors of the economy which include; commercial agriculture with “ekibaro”, manufacturing and artisanship, services and ICT.
“We need to emphasize that the NRM is a party which came with a principle of understanding people’s needs which have got a potential solution, but it has not been either identified or if identified not implemented”, President Museveni said.
The President also urged the party cadres to carry out a democratic exercise and warned them against the opposition’s planned move to disorganize the party primaries.
During the same event, President Museveni registered and updated his particulars in the register as a member of the party, which will enable him to contest in the 2026 general elections.
At the same function, the NRM 1st National Vice Chairman, Alhajj Moses Kigongo appealed to the party members to show the highest degree of discipline during the exercise, saying that the people down there in the countryside are very eager to see what they are going to do but if you they dont have discipline, they are going to mess up things.
The NRM Secretary General, Hon Richard Todwong, on behalf of the NRM party, thanked President Museveni for being a pillar and an icon to the African revolution and to the world and assured that as a party they are committed to make sure that President Museveni continue with his legacy and good deeds.
He further noted that the party currently has a total of 11.4 million voters in their register but many of them don’t have National Identification numbers, others have been registered in many villages, so the exercise is to make sure that they clean and reorganize the register and said that 5.8 million members are male and 5.3 million female in the 151 districts, 345 constituencies, 2216 sub counties, 10747 parishes and 71512 villages.
He however pointed out that the number of villages keep increasing because the National Electoral Commission has a different number, and the local government also has a different number.
The Chairman of the NRM Electoral Commission, Dr Tanga Odoi presented to the President a revised copy of the roadmap for the election of the NRM structures from the village to the national level where he said that from Wednesday March 13th to Sunday 17th March 2024, the exercise of display and update of the NRM register will be done at every village of Uganda.
He also said that all villages will have what we call village baraza on the evening 17th 2024, where the NRM Village Executive Committee, the NRM Electoral Commission Village Registrar will be called to approve before it is called it a register and on 24th March 2024, the party will call for expression of interest and nominate candidates for party structures at village or cell level, because whoever wants to contest must start from the village level where he or she is well known.
According to the NRM Secretariat, the rationale of the party register update is to ensure that members details are up-to-date, most especially those who joined NRM before obtaining national IDs with their Identification details and the eexercise is also aimed at weaving out non-existent members who perhaps may have deceased or decided to abandon or join another political party.
Dr Tanga Odoi reminded Ugandans that it should be understood that Ugandan registered voter cannot have more than one political affiliation, which means for one to join the NRM or another party, they have to cease their current membership elsewhere first.
