2026 polls: EU delegation holds talks with NUP leaders
By press time, they were still engaged in a closed-door meeting, which was also attended by the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and Nakawa West MP Joel Ssenyonyi.
The delegation, led by head of mission to Uganda Jan Sadek, was welcomed by NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi and secretary general Lewis Rubongoya. (Courtesy photo)
Umaru Kashaka
Journalist @New Vision
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A delegation of the European Union (EU) envoys has held talks with the National Unity Platform (NUP) party’s top leadership.
The meeting ahead of the 2026 general election was at the NUP headquarters in Makerere Kavule on Monday (May 12).
The delegation, led by head of mission to Uganda Jan Sadek, was welcomed by NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi and secretary general Lewis Rubongoya.
By press time, they were still engaged in a closed-door meeting, which was also attended by the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and Nakawa West MP Joel Ssenyonyi.
Kyagulanyi recently accused the Police of yet again blocking their party engagements in western and northern Uganda following “our very successful NUP leaders’ convention” in Mbale city.
He argued that while the Police blocked their events, President Yoweri Museveni and his NRM party had been “moving around the country campaigning-holding rallies and processions”.
“Before this new blockade, they had put a blanket ban on our nationwide mobilisation tours. Of course, the regime is doing all this out of panic and fear. On our part, we shall continue to mobilise, organise and agitate. Our struggle will end in victory,” Kyagulanyi wrote on his social media platform account X.
He and the entire NUP leadership continue to call for the immediate and unconditional release of Kyagulanyi’s civilian bodyguard Edward Ssebufu aka Eddie Mutwe and all political prisoners being held by the State.
Mutwe was recently charged with six counts of robbery and assault by the Masaka Magistrate’s court, following his alleged abduction by security operatives from Mukono district on April 27, 2025.
He was taken into the magistrate’s chambers for a closed-door session attended only by his lawyer Magellan Kazibwe and state attorney Michael Wakosesa, where charges were read to him.
The charge sheet says Mutwe will be tried alongside three other members of Kyagulanyi’s security team; Achilleo Kivumbi, Grace Wakabi aka Smart-wa-Bobi, and Gadafi Mugumya who were charged in February and are currently on remand at Masaka Central Prison.
They are accused of assaulting journalists during the burial of UK-based businessman Pascal Ssekasamba in May last year, including damaging a video camera belonging to Zainabu Namusaazi of Next Media Group and destroying a smartphone belonging to Radio Simba correspondent Margret Kayondo.
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