The TV10GanoMazima can exclusively reveal that Rosemary Nansubuga Sseninde and Justine Mbabazi are in a secret fight over the National Resistance Movement (NRM) ticket for Wakiso District Woman Member of Parliament.
In the 2021 parliamentary election, Sseninde was defeated little known Betty Naluyima who held the National Unity Platform (NUP) ticket. After the defeat, President Museveni dropped her as the junior Minister for Education.
However, because of the good relationship Sseninde has with the first lady maama Janet Kataha Museveni, she was appointed as a Director at NRM Secretariat in charge of mobilization. When TV10GanoMazima asked her whether she is coming back in elective politics, she only responded with “don’t wake them up”.
We have established that she is making clandestine mobilization to contest for the same seat come 2026.
But political observers in Wakiso told TV10GanoMazima that Sseninde is going to find a hard task to secure the NRM ticket because Mbabazi is also interested in the same ticket and she is also doing clandestine mobilization.
“Mbabazi is on the ground, she always stands with people when it comes to the situation of challenges, especially on the land issues. Minister Sam Mayanja has also helped her to popularize herself because whenever he goes for a land matter, he has to go with her and praise her before the public as a very hard working lady and an NRM cadre,” one of the political observers said.
However, Sseninde is also not sleeping. She is using her position NRM director Mobilisation to hit two birds with one stone. Others interested in the seat are Rose Kirabira, Sylivia Namutyaba, Naluyimba is also coming back among others.
She is popularizing President Museveni’s achievements across the whole country and at the same time doing ground mobilization among the locals in Wakiso district.
