By Tolit Ivan
Richard Todwong, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Party Secretary General, has told Ugandans to blame him for President Yoweri Museveni’s continued stay in power as he (Museveni) seeks his seventh term in office.
Mr Museveni is a candidate for the ruling NRM party in the January 2026 elections. His first election win as President of Uganda in a general election was on May 9, 1996.
Prior to this election, Museveni had taken power in January 1986 following a five-year guerrilla war and ruled under a “no-party” system.
Speaking during the launch of NRM mobilization activity at Paminyai sub county on Sunday, Mr. Todwong, said he was the mastermind behind the removal of the presidential term limit and the revival of the multiparty system in the country something he says paved way for Museveni’s 40 years stay in power.
According to Todwong, all this happened in 2001 when he was a commissioner under the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.
Todwong served as a commissioner at the Constitutional Review Commission under the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs from 2000 until 2003. Uganda currently has no presidential term limits, as constitutional amendments in 2005 removed the two-term limit, and a 2017 amendment removed the age limit allowing President Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, to run indefinitely.
