Yoweri Museveni nominated as a Presidential Candidate in the 2026 General Elections

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was nominated as a Presidential candidate in the 2026 general elections on September 23, 2025.

The ceremony took place at the Electoral Commission (EC) offices in Lubowa, Wakiso District, where Justice Simon Byabakama, the EC Chairperson, confirmed that he had fulfilled all nomination requirements for Presidential candidates.

President Museveni's campaigns will run under the theme: “Protecting the Gains, Making a Qualitative Leap into High Middle-Income Status”.

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Entry into Politics & Armed Struggle

Museveni and other revolutionary youths

As a young Pan Africanist, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was only interested in joining the University of Dar es Salaam with an aim of participating in politics and liberation, to his disappointment, he found that many students were only focusing on careerism. 
Determined to make a meaningful contribution, Museveni and other patriotic students formed a Pan Africanist students organisation called University Students African Revolutionary Front (USARF)which connected different students’ different countries across Africa.

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