On October 14, 2025 President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, also the Presidential Flagbearer of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), said the party doesn't seek cheap popularity but delivers tangible results that transform the lives of Ugandans.

Speaking to thousands of jubilant supporters during his Presidential campaign rally at Nyadri Urban Secondary School Grounds in Maracha District, the President said the recent connection of West Nile to the national electricity grid was not a cosmetic achievement but part of NRM’s deliberate strategy to industrialize and modernize Uganda.

The campaign is running under the theme: “Protecting the Gains, Making a Qualitative Leap into High Middle-Income Status”.

“For us NRM, we don’t just do things to please people even when things are wrong it’s very dangerous, that’s cheap popularity , we were telling people that power will come here in West Nile but let’s move according to the plan. Now powerful electricity has come and the work is to distribute it to the sub counties and it  will also be done,” he said.

The President explained that the 132KV line from Karuma to Arua is one of the biggest energy investments in Northern Uganda, adding that it will spur industrialization and agro-processing across the sub-region.