National Resistance Movement (NRM) electoral commission chairperson Tanga Odoi has annulled grassroots elections conducted without the official party register, citing procedural breaches and widespread irregularities.
In an interview with Nile Post on Saturday, Odoi announced that the party would rerun elections in affected locations, especially where unauthorized individuals oversaw the process in the absence of commission staff.
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“In areas where the official register wasn’t used, we’re nullifying those elections and will conduct them afresh,” he stated, singling out Kampala’s Old Taxi Park as a case in point.
He revealed that a taxi operators’ chairperson had claimed to conduct the elections there, despite lacking legal authority. Odoi also said the commission officials had abandoned the venue due to violence.
He reiterated the importance of following party regulations: “The guidelines are clear—elections must be conducted by commission officials using the approved register.”
His comments follow widespread grassroots elections, some of which were marred by confusion, inaccessibility of registers, and unauthorized polling activities by locals.
The cancellations have triggered renewed concerns over the credibility of the NRM’s internal electoral framework, with some party members expressing frustration over what they describe as a poorly managed process and raising concerns about the scale of the irregularities.
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