Hon. Stephen Shyaka Ghasaija who lost the 2021 parliamentary elections to NUP’s Micheal Kakembo Mbwatekamwa has once again retained the NRM party ticket after seeing off his two fellow party competitors in the party primaries that were held on July 18, 2025. He was declared winner of NRM party primaries by the Entebbe Municipality NRM returning officer Paul Wasike .
The NRM returning officer Paul Wasike noted that despite having a smooth and peaceful elections , a few anomalies occured during the party polls .
“Apart from one polling center that was disqualified (Mayanzi ) since they started voting before midday yet we had set the official time at Mid-day. Having got a phone call from the polling supervisor informing me that they had started voting by 9am, when we reached there at around 10am I found the report true, So , I had nothing to do but to disqualify the polling station since it contravened the party voting regulation, ” Wasike disclosed.
Hon. Stephen Shayka Gashaija garnered 4,175 to win the party ticket followed by Scholastica Jane Najjemba with 467 and Jovia Namara in third place with 192 votes out of 21,507 registered voters in Entebbe Municipality NRM yellow book.
Speaking to the press shortly after being declared NRM party flag bearer for the 2026 parliamentary polls, Hon.Shayka pledged to serve all Entebbe locals regardless of ones political affiliation.
“The people of Entebbe are looking for someone who can work diligently with His Excellency the President on matters of implementing the manifesto of the NRM and our manifesto as team Shayka, is not different from the manifesto of His Excellency. Therefore, as Team Shayka, we are going to work for everybody” Joyous Shyaka stated.
In the polls for the Wakiso Woman MP seat, former Entebbe RDC Rosemary Kirabira emerged winner with 2,808, while Radhtiah Namakula got 1,040 and Beth kayesu tailed with 362 votes.
The elections which were peaceful were marred by low voter turn up, heavy combined security deployment of the SFC, UPDF and Uganda Police Force at all polling stations.
The Entebbe Resident District Commissioner Hakim Kirigwa revealed that the NRM Parliamentary primaries went on well in the 24 voting villages without any cases of violence being reported in both Divisions of Entebbe Municipality throughout the polls.
RDC Kirigwa revealed that with exceptional of Kigungu where candidates were complaining that the people who were voting, were not within the register, the rest of the voting in other areas proceeded peaceful.
” We went there with the team. We instructed that the voting should be one man, one vote and the register was produced and we left when everything was in order, we have not registered any incident, so we have had very peaceful elections” RDC Hakim Kirigwa stated.
Else where in Kigulu North constituency , Iganga district , the state Minister for Agriculture Hon. Fred Bwino Kyakulaga lost in the NRM parliamentary primaries to Simeon Kungu who garnered the largest number of votes.
According to Iganga NRM returning officer , Yazid Kirunda, Simeon Kungu got 180804, followed by Fred Bwino131400, Ismai Badogi 10547, and Gubbi Kenneth 1479.
Meanwhile, Ms. Jane Scholastic Najjemba Baguma who had lots of hope to win the Entebbe Municipality NRM party ticket is rumored to have collapsed after the results were not in her favour.
