Uganda’s Electoral Commission (EC) has cleared President Yoweri Museveni to contest for a sixth term. The move paves the way for the 76-year-old Museveni to vie for the presidency on the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) ticket in the general election slated for February 2021. “I hereby declare Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa Kaguta duly nominated candidate in respect to the presidential elections of 2021 having fulfilled the requirement as set out in the Presidential Elections Act 2005,” said EC chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama. A win will clear Museveni to rule the landlocked East African country for upward of 40 years. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who was born on September 15, 1944, has been the President of Uganda since 1986.

Source: Daily Nation November 02, 2020 09:45 UTC