On October 16, 2025 President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the National Chairman of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and party Presidential flagbearer continued his campaign trail in Yumbe District where he commended residents for their steady progress and loyalty to the NRM principles of peace, unity and prosperity.

He recalled that when the government first debated granting Yumbe, a district status, its population was only about 100,000 and many people doubted its viability. Today, the district’s population has surpassed one million — growth he attributed to immunization and improved health services introduced under the NRM government.