PFF to be inaugurated as new party next Tuesday — Ssemujju

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The People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) will be officially inaugurated as a new political party on July 8, 2025, the acting spokesperson and Kira Municipality MP, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, has said.

He was addressing a press conference at their offices on Katonga Road in Kampala on Monday, June 30.

“Over 1,000 delegates are expected to attend. They will represent over 5,000 members who appended their signatures on the application to register this party. So, on July 8, we will have a big day here to formally inaugurate and present PFF to the country,” he said.

Ssemujju noted that they received the certificate of registration on June 5, 2025.

“So, the interim leadership has a duty to present to the country the [new] party; who we are, what we intend to do, the objectives and the constitution,” he stated.

He also said they will use the occasion to present for approval, names of the leaders of the PFF and thereafter, the new leadership will be sworn in to assume leadership immediately.

“We will have the regional and the subregional conferences to follow at which regional, subregional and district leadership will also be inaugurated,” he added.

Major milestone

On May 16, 2025, the promoters of PFF, who broke away from the Forum for Democratic Change party, were delighted that the Electoral Commission (EC) finally gazetted their brainchild as a political party.

This was seen as a major milestone in the faction’s quest to register PFF as a political party and use it as a vehicle to run campaigns in the 2026 general election.

Former Nakawa MP and the faction’s interim electoral commission chairman, Michael Kabaziguruka, said then that being gazetted meant PFF fulfilled all the requirements to be registered as a political party.

Justice Simon Byabakama, the EC chairman, signed a notification of application for the PFF party’s registration that was published in the Uganda Gazette on May 16, 2025.

The faction started collecting signatures of 50 registered voters from at least two-thirds of all the 146 districts in the country in early October 2024 after being cleared by the EC.

It broke away from the Najjanankumbi-based FDC in July 2023 over the source of the last general election campaign funds.

The EC notice in the Gazette said the PFF party’s address is Plot 6, Katonga Road, P.O. Box 29628, Kampala, and that the mobile phone handset is its symbol.

The colour is white with a stripe of royal blue, and the slogan is “Freedom for all-all for freedom”.

The EC roadmap says the next general election will take place on January 12 and February 9, 2026, but candidates for presidential, parliamentary and local government seats will be nominated from June to October 2025.