{"id":15636,"date":"2019-03-23T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T02:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2019-03-23T11:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T03:03:35","slug":"uganda-pres-yoweri-museveni-accepts-proposal-to-run-for-6th-term-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15636","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Pres Yoweri Museveni accepts proposal to run for 6th term in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/President-Yoweri-Museveni-accepts-proposal-to-run-for-6th-term-in-2021-731696?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/71190185.295.jpg\" alt=\"Yoweri Museveni Age\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>President Yoweri Museveni<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KAMPALA, March 23 (NNN-ALLAFRICA) &#8212; Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, aged 74, has affirmed he still has the strength to extend his rule to hit the four-decade mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke after the National Resistance Movement (NRM) lawmakers endorsed him to continue leading the party and the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parliamentary caucus in Kyankwanzi District unanimously endorsed the party&#8217;s central executive committee (CEC) resolution to have Museveni continue leading the East African nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m therefore very pleased with your confidence in me and since I am still very able and I happen to be among the most conversant with this journey, I happily agree to serve,&#8221; said the President, fetching thunderous applause from the legislators who nominated him unanimously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This development implies that Museveni, already in power for 33 years, will be seeking a record sixth term in power during the 2021 general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will battle it out in the 2021 poll with 37-year-old MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine and Kizza Besigye, 62, who has unsuccessfully tried to dislodge Museveni in Uganda&#8217;s 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Museveni has been in power since January 26, 1986. &#8212; NNN-ALLAFRICA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoweri Museveni KAMPALA, March 23 (NNN-ALLAFRICA) &#8212; Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, aged 74, has affirmed he still has the strength to extend his rule to hit the four-decade mark. He spoke after the National Resistance Movement (NRM) lawmakers endorsed him to continue leading the party and the state. The parliamentary caucus in Kyankwanzi District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}