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TORORO – The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has taken the lead in the parliamentary and presidential campaigns in Tororo North and South constituencies, with residents rallying behind President Yoweri Museveni in what party leaders describe as a show\u00a0of appreciation.<\/p>\n
The surge in NRM support follows President Museveni\u2019s decision last year to resolve a two-decade political dispute between Tororo County and West Budama by creating three new districts: Mukuju, Nagongera and Mulanda, alongside Tororo city.<\/p>\n
The move has triggered defections from the Opposition, particularly in Tororo South, as residents say it is time to reward the President and government for what they call a \u201crightful decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
On January 6, 2026, the NRM Tororo district leadership opened a new party office at Mukuju County headquarters, the proposed district headquarters, shifting from Tororo Municipality to strengthen grassroots mobilisation.<\/p>\n
District branch chairperson Godfrey Othieno Otabong said the office would help mobilise voters to deliver over 90%\u00a0support for President Museveni and all NRM flag\u00a0bearers by countering \u201clong-term opposition negative propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Tororo South, incumbent MP and NRM flag bearer Fredrick Angura\u00a0has capitalised on government programmes such as rural electrification, piped water extension, construction of seed secondary schools, improved health services and the Parish Development Model to outpace his rivals.<\/p>\n
Angura is facing Alex Opua Emungas, an independent he defeated in the primaries, Wilson Okachuga, and Eunice Namisi.<\/p>\n
Emungas said he would lobby for scholarships and introduce poverty-alleviation programmes under his slogan \u201cKabarata kere\u201d meaning \u201clet us all get rich.\u201d Okachuga pledged to use part of his salary to support school feeding programmes and lobby for a sugar factory to create jobs, while Namisi, a three-time contestant, promised to prioritise education and healthcare.<\/p>\n
In Tororo North, NRM flag-bearer Simon Nicholas Owino, a businessman mentored by Angura, has unsettled his rivals, incumbent MP Geoffrey Ekanya\u00a0of the Forum for Democratic Change and former MP Annet Nyaketcho Amella, now an independent.<\/p>\n
The two have formed an informal alliance, urging voters to back either of them but not Owino, whom they describe as \u201cyoung and inexperienced.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"__________________ TORORO – The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has taken the lead in the parliamentary and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1023,12039,1022,12040,4735,12041,12037,12038,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-18886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-2026ugandaelections","9":"tag-mp","10":"tag-nrm","11":"tag-nrm-dominates-tororo-north","12":"tag-parliament","13":"tag-south-parliamentary-campaigns","14":"tag-tororo-north","15":"tag-tororo-south","16":"tag-uganda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}