MUBENDE: The, Mubende NRM Youth Brigade a pressure group advocating for NRM Support in the grater Mubende divided over two top founding Members differences in supporting candidates for the seat of woman representative for mubende district in the coming primaries of the party.
The NRM Electoral Commission announced that lately this year that the party primaries are slated for 2025 and MUBENDE so far has Three serious aspirants on taking the party Flag.
Compaigning for each camp is sharp edged an further compaigns towards the elections seems to be intense as it is seen by the growing provocations and propaganda.A video circulating on social media, A one Godfrey Mugambe their Commandant( NRM youth Brigade), was soliciting support to vote for Tindimwebwa Teopista to be the NRM flag bearer for the general elections 2026 and some of his colleague looked surprised for the move.
The video that was posted on different WhatsApp groups The commandant of the yellow brigade said “The people of kibalinga, my friends we are going to vote we are still in the groups of the champions league but a friend in need is a friend indeed, I have come with her condolences of 50,000shs, from Hon Tindimwebwa but because of the rain I would have asked you to vote for her.”
“Apart from hatred and envy when you get an MP from kibalinga do you die? why do you vote for people from far away and not your children, someone who studied here in Nkandwa , then went back to kibalinga and went around like this, Godfrey Mugambe is my name who was appointed to guard the election of President Museveni but I brought Tindimwebwa”. He said
REACTIONS TO THE VIDEO
After sharing the video to different platforms with A breaking news caption the speaker of kibalinga subcounty Twine Silvester who is a Top member of the yellow brigade also compaigning for uwamahoro faridah Bigirimana for the NRM Flag stepped down on his duties as the member of the group saying it will deliberately fail him to compaign for his candidate.
“I hereby suspend my duties in mubende yellow brigade untill nrm primaries are done because i will be busy in hon.Faridah’s campaigns after The on going consultations, To protect the ground credibility and my self” Twine Silvester wrote on WhatsApp groups.
Some of the political analyst on the platforms critisized mugambe saying he had eaten his words.
While on a radio talkshow Saturday 19/10/2024 Mugambe reacted on matter saying after making enough research he discovered some Truth that is why he made the decision that contradicts to what he had earlier said.
Mugambe said he discovered that the camp of Uwamahoro Faridah Bigirimana contains many intrigues as well as the desire to confuse others to make them evil.
“The camp also is built on divide and rule so I cannot tolerate that, I went for different courses that contained some military content and every course tasted differently so I know what am doing” He said.
“But this camp has Alot of propaganda and this is going to make Uwamahoro Faridah Bigirimana fail in elections totally that is not how the politics in mubende looks like but there’s a guy from Mbarara who is making our boys think they have made it already” mugambe Added.
He also alleges that Hon Twine Silvester was the crook behind the video that circulated with intentions he didn’t know.
He emphasizes that the mubende people should vote for their children saying that the politicians who come from anywhere and stand for a vote are business people.
” Mubende is one the district bettered in maize growing, During the season of maize traders come all over and buy the maize after the maize getting over they disappear until the next season now it’s looks like some of the candidates we have write now” mugambe said.
He says he has more facts and yet to publish it if continued to be provoked.
WHAT DOES THE GROUP’S RULES SAY.
According to Hon Twine says that the rules and regulations of the group says a member is free to support any candidate he wants as long as they are still in party primaries but after the primaries in the general elections they have to support the Flag bearer and the president of the party.
Whereas Mugambe says these provisions should be taken with qoution to, “let’s for instance say you are support your candidates and am also supporting mine, now you are harshly provoking someone else what if she gets the Flag and you are the one to support in the general elections”.
