By KT Reporter
The First National vice chairman for the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Al-Hajji Moses Kigongo, has ordered all NRM candidates who lost in the primary elections and returned as independents to step down in favour of flag bearers.
Kigong,o while meeting the NRM flag-bearers and losers in Hoima city, says that the party will use all efforts to fail them, warning that such candidates are breaching the party’s manifesto and guidelines.
According to Kigongo, they won’t allow any of the candidates to undermine and cause division in the party by contesting as independents, yet they (candidates) genuinely lost in the primaries.
Kigongo tasked the losers to embrace peace, unity and harmonisation and ensure that they rally behind the flag bearers.
He further cautioned some of the NRM leaders from the region, especially those from Hoima city, against supporting and funding opposition candidates, noting that appropriate disciplinary action would be taken against them.
According to Kigongo, currently, the Party’s top organ is investigating some of its own for allegedly funding independent and opposition candidates in the region.
Jonard Asiimwe, the Western region NRM Vice Chairperson, says there is a need to continue dialoguing with the NRM losers to ensure that they rally behind the flag bearers. He says he will constitute a committee to continue engaging the losers and ensure that the party accommodates them.
Vincent Muhumuza Savanah, the Hoima NRM Chairperson, tasked the losers to follow the party’s constitution and guidelines, appealing to them not to contest as independents.
Pius Wakabi, the Bugahya county member of parliament whose flag declaration took close to two months after elections in Kampala, said that unless the party cleans up their electoral commission, many will continue returning as independents.
Geofrey Kumakech, the NRM Chairman for Buseruka sub-county, tasked the party’s top leadership to facilitate them in conducting mobilisation while soliciting support for the Party.
One of the NRM candidates contesting on an independent ticket in Hoima City told URN on condition of anonymity that the party primaries were not free and fair and that is why many of them have come back as independents.
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