NRM top wigs should not alienate people - Museveni
Feb 27, 2016
Without this organizational weakness, our vote should be around 65% for the President in this (last) week’s vote. Even then, that should not have been the vote we should have got given the work NRM has done, especially in the area of infrastructure and also in the area of peace and security.
President elect Yoweri Museveni has said the lack of supervision of government programmes is to blame for his party's performance at the just concluded general election.
The NRM won the presidential election by just over 60% of the valid votes cast and got controlling majority of Parliament.
The President, however, believes had his programmes been implemented as had been planned the NRM should have taken over 80% of the valid ballots cast on February 18, 2016.
In an open letter to his supporters, Museveni reiterated the core principles of the NRM government and the need to keep achieving these principles for the sustained protection of the revolution.
"Without this organizational weakness, our vote should be around 65% for the President in this (last) week's vote. Even then, that should not have been the vote we should have got given the work NRM has done, especially in the area of infrastructure (roads, electricity, schools, health centres, piped water, etc.) and also in the area of peace and security.
"We should have got 80% in my opinion. However, that potential high score was undermined by some mistakes of some of our leaders. One long standing mistake has been poor supervision of government services e.g. health care and the stealing of drugs from health centres," said Museveni.
Here is the full speech.