We’re already in the election period with National Resistance Movement [NRM] kicked off with the lower ranks elections as they gear up for the national primaries set for mid July this year.
Of course 2026 will be a nation wide elections from lower levels to the presidential level, Uganda does this every after five years and as we speak a number of individuals; newcomers, incumbents and returnees, both political parties based and independents have started showing interest to represent subjects at various levels.
Our interest this time round is drawn in Bukoto East (Masaka District), the constituency that is in hands of National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate, Hon. Ronald Kanyike Evans.
As we heading into 2026 general elections, the ruling party what’s to unseat the incumbent but among the NRM candidates that’s showed interest are; the Uganda’s Ambassador in Magreb countries, basing in Algiers in Algeria, Hon. Alintuma Nsambu, Kalema Pax D, and Babirye Kityo Sarah.
The three are heading into NRM primaries to get one who will battle it out with the incumbent Hon. Ronald Kanyike Evans.
However, much interest is drawn at the Ambassador who last represented the people of Bukoto East in 2011. Before he was unsat by Florence Namayaja, the MP of the area then, Nsambu left when he was unpopular after he went bare knuckle with the Kingdom of Buganda and the Kabaka. For starters he fronted the closure of CBS FM as well as supporting the desolation of cultural institutions in the country, Buganda inclusive.
The man returns after 14 years of no show and the big question manifested among the political analysts asserting whether the Bukoto East locals are too forgetful that they can trust Nsambu again.
Last month during the Kabaka birthday run period, Nsambu went to Mengo and bought at least 100 kits and distributed among the Masaka locals but the analysts claimed that this was a political move to show public that him and Buganda they have reconciled but in the background it’s the total opposite.
This website landed on the private conversation that leaked on one of the WhatsApp groups in Masaka when Nsambu was downplaying the efforts of Buganda and her top officials asserting that they’re thiefs to whom he can’t trust even to apologise to.
“We can’t vote for him” some Bukoto East heard saying during one of the public meetings in the area. “Masaka is for Buganda and if you don’t like Buganda, how can we trust you with our vote, let him stay on his ambassador role or go back to Lwengo.”
Another point the analyst relayed on is the dynamism of Nsambu, for remembering, the Ambassador lost in by-elections in 2012 in Bukoto East, the following campaign season he switched to Lwengo where he also failed to go through and now he has bounced back, he’s unstable movements may also hinder his support amongst the people of Bukoto East.
