President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said the people of Amudat district in Karamoja have every reason to vote NRM in the forthcoming 2026 general election.
President Museveni who was campaigning at Kalas Girls Primary School grounds in Amudat today, said when the NRM came to power, it ignored naysayers to grant a county to Upe in Amudat district, despite having a small population.
He said that in 1989, when government wanted to expand the National Resistance Council, they insisted that a constituency must be equal to a county, noting that at that time Uganda had 149 counties and was referring to the creation of Upe County, currently in Amudat district.
He explained that later, his government granted Amudat a separate district, carve out of Nakapiripirit in 2010 abd although the population was still small but I said these people are Pokot and their language is different from Karamojong.
President Museveni told the gathering in Amudat that when he sees that the population in the district has grown to now over 203,000, he knows miracles happen and said allowing Amudat get its own district despite having a small population is something not many, apart NRM could accept to happen.
