The National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) directorate of legal affairs has revealed that it has at least 645 petitions from their recent party primaries for flag bearers ahead of the national Electoral Commission nominations.
Speaking to the media at the party headquarters in Kampala yesterday, Enoch Barata, a member of the directorate of legal affairs at the NRM, said 455 petitions were filed by the party candidates vying for positions of MP while 190 petitions were raised by candidates at other lower levels.
Many losing NRM candidates have since petitioned the party headquarters and the party electoral commission.
The 645 petitions have not been heard, yet the national Electoral Commission has set nomination dates for candidates in the 2021 general election.
Meanwhile, The NRM Secretary General Justine Lumumba Kasule says the NRM has today commenced the process of endorsing nomination of the party flag bearers to be presented to the national electoral commission for nomination.
Lumumba says the nomination forms will be endorsed for only the flag bearers whose elections have not been challenged before the NRM tribunal which is currently hearing petitions from the just concluded primaries.
