FDC submits its Presidential signatures to the EC.

By; Gideon Peter Ssebulime

21^st Oct. 2020

The Forum for Democratic Change- FDC has submitted to the Electoral Commission, the signatures endorsing Patrick Oboi Amuriat’s candidature for the presidency. Amuriat will be the official candidate of the FDC in the 2021 presidential race.

According to the Presidential Elections Act, each presidential aspirant is required to present at least 100 signatures of registered voters from two-thirds of the total number of districts across the country, to support their pursuit for nomination.

Uganda currently has 146 districts, which means that aspirants must get signatures from 98 districts. Although FDC could not indicate how many signatures the party collected, the party’s Electoral Commission Chairman Toterebuka Bamwenda says that they have collected enough signatures to guarantee that their candidate is successfully nominated.

Bamwenda told journalists at the party Headquarters in Najanankumbi today that they have ensured that they verify and validate their signatures before delivering them to avoid giving EC any chance of turning their candidate away. Presidential nominations will be held on November 2 and 3.

So far, only President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of the National Resistance Movement [NRM] has been issued with a certificate of compliance indicating that he had fulfilled one of the cardinal requirements for nomination. Over two weeks ago, his party submitted over five million signatures of nominators for verification according to the Paul Bukenya, the spokesperson of the Electoral Commission.