REJECTED: Shock as Muhoozi’s Own Poll Shows Majority of Ugandans Don’t Want Him to Run for President in 2026

Majority of Ugandans do not want first son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba to stand for president in 2026, results of an opinion poll commissioned by President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s boy child have indicated. 

In a simple Twitter poll that started running on May 01, Lt Gen Kainerugaba just asked those who wanted him to stand for president in 2026 to retweet and those who did not not want him to contest for the country’s top seat to just like.

By publication time, a little over 18 hours later, 13,969 people had taken part in the poll.

Of these, 3,569 or 25.5 per cent supported the idea of Muhoozi standing for president in 2026.

The majority, up to 10,400 or 74.5 per cent voted to ask the first son not to stand for president.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba 2026 presidential poll

The poll came on the day Muhoozi announced that his interest in winning power and becoming president was unstoppable. (Read Story Here).

READ: Muhoozi Reveals the First Thing He Will Do if He Becomes Uganda’s President in 2026

A top army general recently told Muhoozi to be ready to annoy his father Museveni if he wants to become President. (Read Story Here).

Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, translator, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. His other journalistic work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block. His new children's book 'Friends of Plastics' has been published by Room to Read and Reading Association of Uganda and can be read here: https://literacycloud.org/stories/7887-friends-of-plastic/

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