Aidah Nakuya the Democratic Front (DF) Member of Parliament candidate for Kampala Central Division has supported the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba move of crushing Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu’s protest vote drive in the ongoing 2026 general elections.
In 2023, Bobi Wine declared a protest vote campaign and rallied his National Unity Platform (NUP) supporters to build the capacity of mobilizing voters to participate in this election in large numbers and make sure that after voting they protect their vote by staying at the polling station.
However, Gen Muhoozi and Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama warned that it is unacceptable for a voter to stay at the polling station after voting. They cautioned all voters that after voting, they should go home and wait for the results from candidates’ agents, local and international observers and the media.
Commenting on the development, Nakuya supported the move saying that it is unnecessary to mobilize people to stay at the polling station after voting. She explained that huge numbers of people will threaten other people from coming to vote and create commotion and chaos and the polling station.
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“A place like Kamwokya where most of the polling stations are surrounded by peoples’ homes and businesses, the owner of the business will be disorganized by the huge number of people if they remain at the polling station under the guise of protecting their votes. Our agents have always been the ones supervising the voting and representing us and our voters at the polling station, so I don’t know how things have changed and now voters are the ones being mobilized to protect our votes,” Nakuya said.
She said that it is Bobi Wine who is responsible for the warnings being issued by Gen Muhoozi because he has been moving around mobilizing people to be defiant during the election which is why as a person who commands the army and supervises security agencies, Gen. Muhoozi was supposed to react with a strong statement.
She added that it was Bobi Wine who declined to support his party president Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba when he was trying to table before parliament the election amendments which were going to streamline the elections when he told his supporters that there was no need for new laws to defeat Museveni.
However, the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka guided that the law allows voters to remain 20 metres away from the condoned off polling centre.
EC boss Justice Byabakama a judge of the Court of Appeal which also doubles as the Constitutional Court boasted that those who will remain at the polling station will be arrested like grasshoppers.
