The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) on Wednesday unveiled its 2021 roadmap.
The party Secretary General, Mr Fred Ebil, said the decision was informed by the party’s top leadership meeting that was held on Tuesday.
“The UPC party cabinet sat on Tuesday June 23, and approved the party internal roadmap and guidelines,” Mr Ebil said.
Mr Peter Walubiri, the party president in the Olara Otunu faction, said the party’s top organ was compelled to adjust their roadmap since the Electoral Commission (EC) had issued a revised roadmap.
“Before the Covid-19 outbreak, we had released a roadmap detailing the party’s activities leading to the delegate’s conference from March to July,” Mr Walubiri told the Daily Monitor.
He added: “But we now have a new roadmap from the Electoral Commission and we had to revise our own internal programming.”
Mr Walubiri, however, said the party may have to fully adhere to the party roadmap if circumstances necessitate.
“A lot will depend on how many candidates express interest. For example, if we don’t have more than one candidate in a constituency, then we may have to forego some of the internal processes such as primaries and so on and we just have that one candidate,” Mr Walubiri revealed.
Nomination Fees
According to Fred Ebil, UPC will be charging different amount for nomination depending on the weight of the position a candidate seeks to occupy.
Nominees for party president will be charged shs 20 million, MPs will be required to cough 1 million, LC5 Chairpersons and city mayors will pay shs 500000, LC5 councilors will pay 100000, municipality and divisional mayors will be charged shs 300000 and 200000 irrespectively while LC3 chairpersons will cough shs 100000.
