A Judgment Against Time: When Legal Formalism Undermines Democratic Stability in Pre-Election Uganda

Title: A Judgment Against Time: When Legal Formalism Undermines Democratic Stability in Pre-Election Uganda An Appraisal of the Nullification of MP Luyimbazi Nalukoola’s Victory in Kawempe North In the matter of A Politically perishable decision. By Isaac Christopher Lubogo #Suigeneris Preamble: The Verdict That Echoes Beyond the Bench In a nation teetering on the edge […]

Nalukoola Appeals Court Ruling Nullifying His Election as Kawempe North MP

The court found evidence of illegal campaign activities and widespread voter disenfranchisement, leading to the decision to set aside Nalukoola’s win. NUP’s Nalukoola Loses Kawempe North MP Seat as High Court Nullifies By-Election-Orders Fresh By-election Following High Court ruling in election petition No. 01 of 2025 in favour of petitioner Hajat Faridah Nambi, the respondent […]

NUP’s Nalukoola Loses Kawempe North MP Seat as High Court Nullifies By-Election-Orders Fresh By-election

Court found evidence of illegal campaign activities and widespread voter disenfranchisement, leading to the decision to set aside Nalukoola’s win. Justice Namanya ordered the Electoral Commission to conduct a new election and ruled that each party must bear its own costs. Mukono NRM Elections Marred by Irregularities as Candidates Walk Out in Protest The High […]

‘I Neither Accepted Election Results, Nor Congratulated Nalukoola’ NRM’s Nambi Insist on Going to Court

“I neither accepted the election results, nor I congratulated Nalukoola,” said Nambi as she reaffirmed her stand to seek court intervention. Even after the swearing-in of Kawempe North By-election winner, Elias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola, the runner up, NRM’s Faridah Nambi has categorically denied that she ever conceded to being defeated by the latter. “I neither accepted […]

BREAKING NEWS: NRM’s Faridah Nambi Petitions EC Asking for Vote Recount 

  Just hours after the Electoral Commission (EC) had gazetted National Unity Platform’s (NUP) Kawempe North by-election winner, Erias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola, the NRM’s candidate, Faridah Nambi has filed a petition at the EC demanding for vote recount. Our Ref: ADA/EC-1/2025 21/03/2025 To: The Chairperson, Electoral Commission RE: MISCELLANEOUS CAUSE NO.22 OF 2025: NAMBI FARIDAH KIGONGO […]

NRM Runs to Court Over Lost Kawempe North By-Election

As Ugandans are grappling with how to reconcile with the aftermath of the short lived but hard-to-forget March 13th Kawempe North parliamentary by-election, members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party have rejected the by election result released by the electoral commission. It has been reliably learnt that during the […]

Kawempe North By-election Update: Dispatching of Polling Materials Kicks Off 

Tension as Handcuffed Suspect Escapes From Mukono Police Custody The Independent Electoral Commission Uganda is in charge of Kawempe North by-election which is taking place today, Thursday March 13, 2024. At exactly 5:00am, the dispatch of polling materials kicked off with police officers escorting the polling officer together with the materials. According to the Electoral […]

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