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Hakim Kyeswa, who heads Digital media at Museveni’s ONC office in Kyambogo which is headed by SPA Hadijjah Namyalo, is officially out of the NRM CEC race for the position of Buganda region vice chairman.
Kyeswa announced his exit in a Friday social media post at 3pm and this was after being cleared during the state house vetting exercise of Thursday.
He says that he pulled out after listening to guidance from national chairman Museveni who made it clear to him that he would like to see a more united NRM front in Buganda as the party prepares to beat NUP and other opposition groups during the 2026 vote.
Kyeswa had been campaigning on a youth agenda demanding to have his fellow youth more involved in party affairs and decision making.
Hours after his pronouncement, Kyeswa turned up at Kati-Kati in Lugogo to attend Haruna Kasolo’s campaign event. Kasolo, who is favored to win the position of NRM vice chairman for Buganda with over 70%, was meeting delegates from Kampala divisions at Lugogo.
Kyeswa was present and organizers made him sit at the high table next to Kasolo. He was later on given the microphone to speak and declared support for the microfinance minister, making it clear he was now his candidate.
Kyeswa explained that as someone who knows what is at stake, he couldn’t afford missing out of the Kasolo euphoria. He explained there was clear need to galvanize the NRM support in the central region and Kasolo remains the best person to lead that political offensive against the opposition.
Kyeswa is an excellent mobilizer and his coming on board for Kasolo is bad news for the remaining opponents like Moses Karangwa, Godfrey Kiwanda and Joseph Lubega Sewava.
He is a blue-eyed boy of ONC manager Hajjat Uzeiye Namyalo Hadijah who commands a lot of support and endorsement among thousands of NRM delegates who will be descending on Kololo to vote the new CEC bosses.
Kyeswa’s coming on board has sent out a clear signal that ONC, which is playing a very big role in Museveni’s effort to recapture Buganda region, is equally interested in Kasolo becoming the new ruling party vice chairman for central region.
The Kyeswa defection has also created a permission structure of some sort for hundreds of other ONC coordinators across the country to begin embracing Hajji Kasolo more openly. The actual truth is that there is no way Kyeswa would make such a big decision as endorsing Haruna Kasolo without the clearance of his boss Namyalo who heads ONC.
