The Bukoto South MP on the National Unity Platform (NUP) party ticket, Dr Twaha Kagabo, has said he subscribes to the MK Movement.

He told his followers on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday, February 3, that he cannot join another party now when it is not yet 12 months to the next general elections as the law says.

“That is a Constitutional matter. I am still @NUP_Ug though I subscribe to @PatrioticMK. Wait till next year as the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda commands me to do,” he told one of his followers who had asked him to quit NUP after hobnobbing with the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) leaders at State House Entebbe on Friday, February 2.

The next general elections are slated for January 12 and February 9, 2026, but candidates for presidential, parliamentary and local government seats will be nominated from June to October 2025.

“I am going to be re-elected overwhelmingly. Time is the best judge,” he told another follower who had told him to save all his allowances as MP arguing that he would not be re-elected in the 2026 polls.

He came to Parliament after beating three other contestants in the 2021 general elections to represent Bukoto South.

Kagabo attended Friday’s NRM parliamentary caucus at State House, where he met President Yoweri Museveni, who is also the ruling party's national chairman and took pictures with him.

He posted some of the pictures on his X account and said he was honoured to be invited as a special guest at the NRM caucus meeting.

“President @KagutaMuseveni made a cogent presentation on the rationalisation of government agencies and the ramifications of duplication. He also afforded a miniature of time to educate me on being focused,” Kagabo said.

He also said the President, who is also the NRM national chairman, challenged them and asked every Ugandan to be “teased” with Adam Smith’s book which he wrote in 1776, entitled, The Wealth of Nations.

“It is important to ask ourselves as leaders this very important question: ‘How do people become rich?’ The take home for me was hefty and as the Swahili say, ‘Jicho linalotazama kwenye jua hali amrishwe kupepesa’ (the eye that looks into the sun is never advised to blink)” Kagabo told his followers.

Meeting Muhoozi

Kagabo was the first MP from the main opposition party to publicly meet Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the chairman of the MK Movement in Entebbe on May 16, 2023.

Gen. Muhoozi, the First Son who also serves as the senior presidential advisor on special operations, is known in political circles by his initials MK.

“I joined the MK Movement to assess its dynamics and was pleasantly surprised by the positive aspects I discovered. I have since shared my findings with my fellow NUP members and as a result, many of them are likely to join the movement soon after Lwanga,” Kagabo wrote on his X handle on July 9, 2023.

When some of his followers took him on, he remarked, “Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. MK Movement to the top.”

His Njeru Municipality counterpart, also on the NUP ticket, Jimmy Lwanga, took the same path in July 2023 and met the four-star general.

Lwanga later told New Vision in an exclusive interview on July 10, 2023, that he believed in Gen. Muhoozi’s political ideology and would support him if he considered running for the country’s presidency.

He said this after the news of his meeting with Muhoozi set tongues wagging.

“Yes, I met him about two weeks ago and we talked about some issues, but some people have raised their eyebrows at this. Their perception is that politics is about competing in hurling insults at each other but politics is about competing political ideologies,” Lwanga argued.