Muntu party ANT holds national conference over 2026 polls
The conference ahead of the 2026 general election, which brought together members of the interim national executive committee and district co-ordinators from across the country, took place today, July 28, 2025, at Tal Cottages Hotel in Kampala city.
The ANT electoral commission chairperson, Dan Mugarura, hands over nomination forms to Maj. Gen. (rtd) Mugisha Muntu during the nomination exercise at Bukoto Apartments offices in Bukoto, Kampala, last week. (Credit: Isaac Nuwagaba)
By Umar Kashaka
Journalists @New Vision
KAMPALA - The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party, led by former Chief of Defence Forces Maj. Gen. (rtd) Mugisha Muntu has held its expanded interim national conference.
The conference ahead of the 2026 general election, which brought together members of the interim national executive committee and district co-ordinators from across the country, took place today, July 28, 2025, at Tal Cottages Hotel in Kampala city.
Former Member of Parliament (MP) Gerald Karuhanga, who is also ANT spokesperson, said they gathered to take stock of the journey they have walked since 2019 and to strategically plan, not just for the future of their party, but for the future of the country.
By the time of writing this story, the conference had just started.
Muntu, who was last week nominated for the presidential seat in the 2026 general election, making a second attempt to run for the country’s highest office, was also in attendance.
He quit the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party on September 25, 2017, which he helped found in 2004.
This was after what political analysts said was a bruising tenure as FDC president from 2012 to 2017 and an equally divisive and unsuccessful re-election bid in November that year (2017).
He then formed ANT on March 19, 2019, arguing that with irreconcilable differences and without properly constituted party structures, FDC could not achieve much.
“If we truly want to change our nation’s trajectory, we must seek to do so differently. Replacing one strong man for another has never worked for us in the past; it will not work for us now. We must be willing to walk away from the politics of individuals to that of institutions,” Muntu said at the time.
However, in the 2021 general election, ANT performed dismally and did not secure a single parliamentary seat.
Muntu also garnered 67,574 votes (0.65%) in a race of 11 candidates that saw incumbent President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement carry the day with 58.38%.