By Our Reporter,
KIBOGA
The President of Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) Hon. Jimmy Akena has urged the people of Bunyoro to vote for a change in government in the 2026 elections.
Akena who is also the son of Uganda’s former president, the late Dr. Apollo Milton Obote made these remarks at the memorial service for Andrea Ogen, a former UPC coordinator who passed on December 2, 1987.
He said he was displeased to seeing that many national infrastructures that were left behind by his father have been sold out, ceased extinction under the current regime, but emphasized the importance of reviving his father’s legacy, which includes establishing programs that benefit all Ugandans despite their race, political and religious affiliations and can be passed on to the country’s next generation and generations after.
“When I was coming here, I passed by KIBOGA hospital. That is one of the seeds that were planted by the UPC government. Everywhere you go in Uganda, you will find a seed that was planted by our fire fathers. Even though the people who planted those seeds are gone, the hospital is still treating the people of this area,” Akena said.
Akena was in the company of the Party Secretary General Hon. Ebil Fred among other party leaders from Bunyoro region.
During his remarks, Akena used biblical illusions of the parable of the fig tree when he said he was on a mission to sow seeds which bear good fruits, as Jesus Christ taught his disciples.
“In that parable Jesus taught us to cut down the trees which don’t bear good fruits,” Akena said as the congregation received and unanimously agreed to cut down the trees which do not bear good fruits in 2026 and elect only UPC party flag bearers from LC1 to the President levels.
Locals assured President Akena of their support for his bid to stand for the President of Uganda in the 2026 general elections.
“It’s not my duty to remove. Mine is to plant […] We want things that will strengthen the people of Uganda,” he added.
He noted that his visiting to the family of late Ogen and in bid to contest for presidency in 2026 is not disrupt regional peace and accuse problems to individuals but to pay a ransom for Ugandans who have become victims of the mistrust in the current government.
“I have not come to cause problems for anybody. I have come looking at the future of Uganda,” Akena explained.
