NRM CEC to meet in Gulu on Wednesday

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Central Executive Committee (CEC), which is the highest decision-making organ in the party, is set to meet in Gulu on Wednesday before its presidential candidate President Yoweri Museveni heads to Karamoja for campaigns.

NRM spokesperson Rogers Mulindwa confirmed the meeting noting that CEC would meet to review the first 10 days of their campaigns and plan for the next phase.

"CEC is the highest decision-making organ of the party and the meeting will review the first 10 days and then set the pace for the next phase," Mulindwa said.

Sam Engola, the party's former vice-chairperson for Northern Uganda also noted that CEC members had been summoned to Gulu for the meeting.

"The NRM CEC will tomorrow meet in Gulu before the President heads for Karamoja for the next phase of his campaigns," Engola noted.

Museveni was set to finalise his campaigns in the Northern region with the last rally in Kitgum on Tuesday where he was supposed to meet NRM leaders.

Some of the CEC members were assigned to move into different regions and meet all the party candidates and also try to find out what the issues on the ground are before the Head of State arrived.

In some of the areas they visited, the CEC members successfully convinced some candidates who had lost in the primaries but went ahead to register as independents to step down.

Museveni will be facing 10 other candidates in the first-ever ‘scientific' presidential elections scheduled to be held on January 14, 2020.

However, most of the other candidates have been accused of breaching the guidelines set by the Electoral Commission and the Ministry of Health which barred rallies and processions as a means to curb COVID-19 infections.