Kyagulanyi urges NUP top organ to remain steadfast

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National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi has urged the party’s top organ, the executive board, to remain steadfast in their struggle for regime change in Uganda.

His message was delivered during a closed-door executive board meeting at the NUP headquarters in Makerere-Kavule, Kampala, on Thursday (March 5) by his deputy for the eastern region, John Baptist Nambeshe.

Nambeshe, who is also the Manjiya County MP and the opposition chief whip in Parliament, chaired the meeting, according to his brief statement on X, formerly Twitter.

“Today, I chaired the @NUP_Ug Executive Board meeting to chart the way forward for our revolutionary movement. I was also privileged to deliver a message of hope from President @HEBobiwine, who remains on the run. He urged us to remain steadfast in the struggle for #ANewUgandaNow,” he posted.

Recently, the outgoing Mawokota South MP and National Resistance Movement party newcomer, Yusuf Nsibambi, implored Kyagulanyi to come out of ‘hiding’ and help resolve his “misunderstandings” with the government.

“Those of you who can reach the NUP president, please advise him to return. Mr President, we need you here. Efforts to secure the release of those many dubbed 'political prisoners’ are underway,” he said during the Uganda Law Society's weekly hybrid press and public engagement with the “radical new bar” in Kampala on February 26.

He then reiterated his appeal for Kyagulanyi to return home. “Your Excellency, we need you back home. We cannot help resolve your misunderstandings with the government while you are away.”

Kyagulanyi, who leads the NUP, rejected the results of the recent general elections, in which President Yoweri Museveni won a seventh term in office by a landslide.

Museveni won with 71.65% of the vote, close to his highest-ever tally of 74% in the country’s first multiparty election since he captured power in 1986 and ushered in two decades of no-party government.

Kyagulanyi, who was Museveni’s chief rival, garnered 24.72% in a race that had six other candidates.

He recently delivered a video message to the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, claiming that President Museveni and the Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, orchestrated widespread violence and election rigging.

The NUP president also alleged that the election was so manipulated that even at the polling station where Museveni voted in Rwakitura, Kiruhura district, he received more votes than the number of registered voters.

He has been in “hiding” since the general election was conducted.