The NRM election campaign trail is in full gear, having started on Monday this week with its manifesto launch at the Speke Commonwealth Resort Munyonyo, one of Kampala’s leafy suburbs. It was truly well-attended and delivered too, by top party apparatchiks, legislators, new flagbearers, and delegations from the districts, and crowning was presided over by presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa Kaguta, its product and strong brand.

We hope and implore that the public will keep abreast with NRM campaign trail, messaging and activities so that by the end of the three months, they are in position to make informed judgment to vote for NRM and President Museveni to consolidate and protect the gains of the last four decades. These gains include rehabilitation, recovery, development, democracy, freedom, peace, security and stability, expansion and diversification of the economy, socio-economic transformation and modenisation now underway so that Ugandans enjoy inclusive prosperity.

The NRM election manifesto is closely linked to its earlier policy documents especially starting with the Ten-point program of 1986 whose main theme was to establish better governance characterized by restoration of participatory democracy, social inclusion, economic recovery and national security alongside that of persons and property.

Therefore, the 2025-31 manifesto, even without delving in new promises, seeks to deepen ongoing programs of national transformation by focusing on expanding accessibility and improved quality of public service delivery. In this regard, NRM will pay adequate attention, on better planning, resource mobilization and deployment free of corruption. NRM campaigners, supporters, cadres and leaders at all levels, but particularly at the subcounty where planning and deliveries are done must be clear and attentive to details. It is correct policy for NRM to keep to the mass line of peace, universal food security, education, healthcare and public infrastructure because they are what will lift majority of Ugandans from poverty, illiteracy, and social backwardness into prosperity, liberation and emancipation.

In the election campaigns, NRM will this time round not have a national taskforce as previously done, but rather, the campaigns and vote-hunting will be conducted by all party structures at the grassroot village level supervised by respective upper echelons. This way, it is hoped that resources will be better focused and applied, with as few as possible, incidences of petty and unprincipled conflicts that often undermine or ruin NRM endevours. And obviously, there will be special operations to deal with anticipated political lethargies and even subterfuge.

Presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni is planned to hold and will indeed address at least two public rallies covering two districts per day, in addition to other engagements including as a sitting president fully in control of the government and country. It is therefore necessary that NRM cadres and political mobilizers double their efforts beyond the ordinary call of duty in this season so as to ensure that every dimension of this election campaign is well-attended to for a convincing victory.

So far, candidate Museveni’s public rallies in Luwero, Amolatar, Dokolo, Otuke and Alebtong districts have been well-organised, attended and massive without any incidents and NRM pledges to continue on that trajectory. To our competitors especially NUP, and FDC, we seek your utmost cooperation so that this election campaign season we have healthy engagement of progressive ideas rather than throwing mud, threats and destructive confrontations you are unable to win. You discuss crowd size, but NRM will focus more on the quality of the pledges back by verifiable facts.

It is surprising that Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Greg Mugisha Muntu of the fringe Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) has stayed on an angry rhetoric path against President Museveni which does not add much political value to his own election campaign. I know Mugisha Muntu as an obdurate personality, but someone needs to advise him to change the tone, otherwise good luck.