President Museveni Hands Over NRM Election Sword to Dr Aliti Tom to Butcher Maracha East MP Race.

Story by Osuta Yusuf.

Maracha District.

15-10-2025.

📸: The crowd that gathered on Wednesday to listen to Dr Aliti Tom Candia after President Museveni Handed Over to Him the Official NRM Party flag on Tuesday 14-10-2025. Photo by Our News Reporter Osuta Yusuf.

Dr Aliti Tom Candia who won the 17-7-2025 NRM Party primary election for Maracha East Constituency MP race after he garnered 10,454 votes, has formally received the NRM Party flag which is a Weapon the Yellow Party uses to fight and win elections for various elective positions in Uganda as the Country readies for the upcoming 12-January-2025 general elections for Parliamentary and Presidential positions.

The official NRM Party flag was symbolically handed over to Dr Aliti Tom Candia on Tuesday 14-10-2025 by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni during his campaign trail in Maracha District before he proceeded to Koboko District to canvas for votes in his 2026 - 2031 Presidential bid and also for his NRM Party flag bearers for Parliamentary and Local Council positions in all the Constituencies and Districts in Uganda.

📸: Maracha District NRM Party Officials at the District and Nyadri Sub-county cheered up on Wednesday as Dr Aliti Tom raised and waved the Party flag given to him on Tuesday by President Museveni.

In the same event on Tuesday 14-10-2025, President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni also handed over the official NRM Party flags to Hon Driwaru Jennifer the incumbent Maracha District woman MP and NRM Flag Bearer for 12-January-2026 general election, Uhuru Nelson the NRM flag bearer for Maracha Constituency MP position and Rt. Hon. Wani Emmanuel the NRM flag bearer for Maracha District LC5 Chairperson position.

It should be noted that, during  the 17-7-2025 NRM Primary election for Maracha East Constituency, 6 candidates contested and Aliti Tom Candia was declared the winner after he garnered 10,454 votes, followed by Aduma Yeero Justus who came in the second position after he garnered 8,310 votes, Adima Patrick garnered 4,244 votes, Amandu Tahiri Karim garnered 4,060 votes, Hon Ruth Lematia Molly Ondoru garnered 2,377 votes and lastly was Edema John Bosco who garnered 483 votes.

📸: Dr Aliti Tom Candia the NRM Party Flag Bearer addressing the crowd. Photo by Osuta Yusuf.

Speaking to a crowd that gathered to listen to him in Nyadri Sub-county on Wednesday 15-10-2025 during his Sub-county to Sub-county tour and NRM Party task force combining meeting, Dr Aliti Tom Candia aged 57, who served for 32 years in various positions in Uganda government and lastly worked as a Commissioner in the Ministry of Health before getting an early retirement and handed over office and government properties on Tuesday morning 10-June-2025 in a strategic approach to go and pick expression of interest form at NRM Party Secretariat Kampala, to seek for NRM Party flag for the Maracha East Constituency MP race, requested the public to avoid politicians who engage in politics of violence, lies, sectarianism and tribalism.

He emphasized on poverty eradication as the first obstacle and enemy affecting our people.

Dr Aliti, while assuring the people that he would not disappoint and shame them if he is voted to become the MP for Maracha East Constituency in the 12th Parliament (2026 - 2031), described the status quo in terms of legislation and representation of the people of Maracha East Constituency in the 11th Parliament (2021 - 2026) as very cold.

📸: Hon Alema Dicky the ONC Coordinator for Maracha District and also the Campaign Task force Chairman for MP Candidate Dr Tom Aliti Candia. Photo by Osuta Yusuf.

Maracha District Coordinator for Office of the National Chairman (ONC), Hon Alema Dicky who decried low voter turn-up in some of the polling stations on voting days, advised the people of Nyadri Sub-county to embrace going out to vote on polling days.

“Voting is the process of each and everyone surrendering their power and rights to whoever they see fit to lead and bring for them services and developments”, says Hon Alema who doubles as the overall campaign chairman for the NRM Party flag bearer Dr Aliti Tom.

 Hon Alema further cautioned the people of Nyadri Sub-county not to let wrong people take their powers away by simply not going to participate in voting on the day of elections, henceforth giving an opportunity for the wrong people to take advantage of such low voter turn-up.

📸: Ofekua Gabriel the NRM Party Chairperson for Maracha District addressing the crowd during the NRM Structure members meeting on Wednesday 15-10-2025 at Nyoro Primary School in Nyadri Sub-county. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter.

While describing himself as an example by mentioning the various positions he held in the society and in the clan before becoming Maracha District NRM Chairperson, Ofekua Gabriel tasked the people of Nyadri Sub-county to use the upcoming 12-January 2026 general election as a litmus paper to vote for the Candidates based on their societal and work experiences in the community rather than those who will come to brag before the crowd over their travel trips abroad, adding that, the people of Maracha East Constituency were once deceived after a Candidate who was working abroad came back to use such external employment opportunities as a basis of getting votes but after he was voted, he ended up disappointing the people of Maracha East Constituency.

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