In a strategic move aimed to clean political violence and build strong party leadership ahead of 2026 elections, President Yoweri Museveni has summoned NRM Secretariat to hold delegates conference on August 27 to 28, 2025, at the Kololo Independence Ceremonial Grounds in Kampala.
The high-level gathering is expected to shape the NRM’s top leadership and political direction ahead of the 2026 general elections.
The proposed conference under the theme “Building a Shared Prosperity: Investing in Uganda’s Future,” will be presided over by President Yoweri Museveni in his capacity as the NRM National Chairman.
Museveni, who has led the party since 1986, is also expected to be endorsed as the party’s presidential flag bearer for the 2026 elections, a move that would clear the way for his seventh elective term in office.
Party Secretary General Richard Todwong says they intend to use the two days conference to elect new members of Central Executive Committee (CEC), and confirm the party’s Presidential candidate.
The NRM National Conference which sits once every five years, is the party’s supreme decision-making organ composed of over 15,000 voting delegates. These include Members of Parliament on the NRM ticket, all party district Chairpersons, LC V Chairpersons on the NRM ticket, NRM Sub- County leaders, leaders of the NRM special interest leagues such as the Youth, Women, Elders, Entrepreneurs, and Persons with Disabilities, as well as historical and founding members of the party.
National Resistance Movement was founded as a Liberation Movement that waged a successful protracted people’s struggle that liberated Uganda from fascist and dictatorial regimes. The National Resistance Movement restored political stability, respect for human rights, national unity, peace, security, law and order, Constitutionalism and the rule of law;
National Resistance Movement politically empowered previously marginalized sections of our society, namely women, youth, elders, people with disabilities and workers to play their rightful role in management of public affairs:
National Resistance Movement established participatory democracy through a policy of decentralisation and self-governance through local councils, leading to political empowerment of the people and social harmony;
