UPC introduces nomination fees for aspirants

By Richard Drasimaku             

The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) has introduced nomination fees for aspirants.

NRM was the first party to introduce nomination fees for aspirants.

 UPC electoral commission chairman, Buzu Adroa, made the announcement at a press conference at Kontinentol hotel in Arua.

MP and mayoral aspirants will pay sh250,000 to participate in the party’s primary elections.


District chairpersons sh150,000, municipal and city division mayors sh100,000. District councillors, LC3 chairpersons, town council chairpersons and municipal councillors sh50,000 while special interest group sh20,000.

At the lowest level, UPC is charging sh5,000 on parish chairpersons and sub county councillors and sh2,000 for village chairperson aspirants.

The forms are available at district offices and the primary elections would be conducted simultaneously with the party structure elections, Adroa said.

He said grassroots elections to rebuild the party structures and get flag bearers will commence on August 18, starting with village and parish elections.

The process is expected to continue upwards to district officials scheduled for August 27, 2015.

There after the party president would announce a date for national delegates’ conference to take place 30 days from the date of announcement.

The new roadmap according to the UPC party spokesman, Lucima, was crafted after the Prof. Patrick Rubaihayo led commission of inquiry that invalidated the chaotic May 30, district elections that was meant to produce a presidential candidate.

Lucima said the elections which Lira Municipality, MP Jimmy Akena, claimed to have won was fraudulent and an embarrassment to the party, claiming that state functionaries were probably used to engineer the mess.


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