37% and former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi a surprisingly meagre 1...
Museveni is further helped by a divided opposition that has split the vote between former Security Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi and opposition stalwart Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)...
MBABAZI MAN MISSING AMID SECURITY CRACKDOWN Among the more disturbing episodes of the 2016 campaign was the disappearance of Christopher Aine head of security for presidential candidate John Patrick Amama Mbabazi's Go Forward campaign...
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Janet Museveni triumphed over other rivals too most of all when she got Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi sacked...
This has become less certain since June when former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi announced that he too would challenge President Yoweri Museveni for the top job...
Besigye who won the FDC nomination on 2 September has never shown much willingness to step aside for Amama Mbabazi...
Speaking on YouTube on 15 June John Patrick Amama Mbabazi declared his intention to secure the governing National Resistance Movement's presidential nomination in place of President Yoweri Museveni...
Many observers also expect a rise in state spending in Kanungu the home district of former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi...
One of those he named Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has since been removed from office and influence although the consensus in political circles is that the Muhoozi project has been shelved for now (AC Vol 55 No 21 Mbabazi on the ropes)...
This comes at a time when the NRM is beset with how to handle the bitter falling out between Museveni and its Secretary General Patrick Amama Mbabazi (AC Vol 55 No 21 Mbabazi on the ropes)...
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Museveni is also beset by the most serious challenge yet to his iron grip on the ruling National Resistance Movement mounted by former NRM Secretary General Amama Mbabazi (AC Vol 55 No 21 Mbabazi on the ropes)...
Currently the main objective is to unseat Amama Mbabazi – the former Prime Minister sacked by Museveni on 18 September – from his position as NRM Secretary General and so quash his hopes of standing for President for the party (AC Vol 55 No 19 Putting US aid to other uses)...