President Yoweri Museveni, who is also the NRM Chairman, has ordered a probe into the irregularities that marred the party’s internal primaries on Thursday las week where several results were allegedly altered, rivals injured and in some instances killed.
Below is Museveni statement
The NRM members, especially the Bazzukulu. Greetings and Congratulations on the NRM Primaries that were carried out on the 17th of July, 2025. On that day, one of our sources has now told me that 9.22million members of our Party participated in the Primaries supporting the different candidates. This is about 50% of our total membership of 18.5 million confirmed on the 6th of May, 2025.
Therefore, 9.22 million members of our Party turning up on the 17th of July, 2025, for the NRM Primaries, on a working day and mid-week, is not bad. Congratulations. However, I must condemn, in the strongest terms, what I started hearing in some areas where some unpatriotic actors are alleged to have committed the following mistakes:
1. Altering results;
2. Tampering with the registers;
3. Using violence, including causing some deaths, apart from the injuries caused;
4. And the use of money and materials to bribe voters.
“We are going to prosecute these mistake-makers. The easiest to start with, are those who altered results.”