The Fall of Anita Annet Among: Why Jacob Oboth-Oboth Is the Main Contender — and Why Norbert Mao Is Out!!!
Until barely a month ago, Anita Annet Among looked politically untouchable. Within the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), everything appeared settled.
Between 27–29 January, the NRM’s Central Executive Committee (CEC), chaired by Yoweri Museveni, met at State House Entebe and resolved to retain Among as Speaker and Thomas Tayebwa as Deputy Speaker for the 12th Parliament.
That decision was reaffirmed on 20th February, forwarded to the NRM Parliamentary Caucus, and formally endorsed by Museveni on 4 March, ahead of the scheduled 25 May Speaker’s vote.
By all conventional standards, this was a done deal.
So how did Anita Among lose out?
The Short Answer: Kyankwanzi
Everything changed at Kyankwanzi.
From 7–14 April, the NRM held its retreat-cum-induction at Kyankwanzi. This was the turning point — and, politically, where Among miscalculated.
Two things had happened, beforecand during the Kyankwanzi retreat: the sudden Speakership bid by Norbert Mao and
A visible shift in Museveni’s threat perception.
The abrupt entry of Mao into the race unsettled Among’s camp. Mao actively courted power brokers, including visits to Salim Saleh in Namunkekera and outreach linked to Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
Sensing danger, Among reportedly fell back on a style of politics that had worked for her at constituency level — raw mobilisation, intimidation, and money politics. How did she become unoppossed in Bukedea Woman's constituency? By bribing her opposers to withdraw from the race and bribing the voters and race organizers in Bukedea. She was declared "unopposed." It is this patronage strategy, she was utilising at Parliament.
At Kyankwanzi, her enthusiastic supporters crossed a red line.
When Museveni began addressing the retreat, pro-Among MPs disrupted him mid-speech, loudly signaling allegiance to her. In NRM culture, that is not just indiscipline — it is a direct challenge to the fountain of power.
Among had successfully built a personal power centre within Parliament. But the moment it appeared capable of publicly disrupting Museveni himself, it ceased to be tolerable.
Museveni’s Pivot: From Tolerance to Alarm
Museveni had long tolerated corruption and excesses in Parliament — as long as they posed no threat to his authority.
Kyankwanzi changed that calculus.
In his speech, Museveni issued a thinly veiled warning, stating that anyone bribing MPs for Speakership votes would be “disqualified."
Corruption suddenly became central to the narrative — not because it was new, but because it had become politically dangerous.
At that moment, Anita Among ceased to be an asset and became a potential rival power centre. We all remember, the work she had done to have Museveni elected. But when she crossed-line, begun talking strong and showing, power and invisibility- her duck was cooked.
That is where her fall began.
Why Norbert Mao Was Never an Option
Ironically, Mao emerged from Kyankwanzi politically visible — but strategically doomed.
The regime does not trust Mao.
He is intelligent, calculating, ambitious, and openly presidential in outlook. His past manoeuvres inside the Democratic Party (DP), particularly how he neutralised internal rivals to retain party control, are well understood at the centre.
Museveni is many things — but naïve is not one of them.
Entrusting Mao with the third-highest office in the land would mean empowering a man capable of independently mobilising, negotiating, and pivoting against the regime if circumstances allowed.
That risk is unacceptable.
So Mao was quietly ruled out.
Why Jacob Oboth-Oboth Emerged???
If you vote for jokers, people without intellectual capacity and charlatans into power you will run a very risky government and institutions and that's what's happening in the U.S.
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@joekent16jan19 The quality of delegates Trump sends for negotiations was not worthy enough to negotiate with Iranians PhDs holders, that was a total failure by Trump.
Images from a plane carrying Iran’s delegation to US-Iran talks in Islamabad show seats filled with photos and belongings of victims of the Minab school strike.
The aircraft, “Minab 168,” honours the 168 killed, mostly children.
The American Empire collapsed long time during Trump's regime by the time it killed the USAID, the Agency which was supporting millions of lives across the world.
The “Great British Empire” collapsed while trying to takeover the Suez cannel.
The “American Empire” will collapse while trying to takeover the Hormuz strait.
History is repeating itself in-front of our eyes.
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@DailyIranNews Let him risk using nuclear weapons and see how the fate of America will also end. Lunatic and Madman so called Trump need psychiatrist Doctor for his mental check up.
Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:
$510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million - Community building grants
$47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million - Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million - Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million - Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion - Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion - College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion - Scientific research funding
$386 million - Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion - Medical research (NIH)
$129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million - Airport and transportation security
$40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million - Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion - International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million - International economic and treasury programs
$315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million - Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research
$297 million - NASA technology innovation programs
$1.1 billion - International Space Station operations
$143 million - STEM education programs
$309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
$170 million - Small Business Administration operations
$158 million - Loans for small businesses
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi attacks Trump now:
"You must send your soldiers to Iran, as you said, to open the Strait of Hormuz if you are brave and stand by your word. Don't talk so much, just send your powerful soldiers to Iran."
"And if you are afraid to send them by plane as happened before, we will send you an Iranian plane to transport them."
"I tell you: within 30 days, in front of the whole world, the Strait of Hormuz will be closed by order of Iranian sovereignty, and no one will dare to open it, not even after 100 years."
"Ask your friend Netanyahu what we are doing to him and his people every day; we are plunging them into a constant nightmare, and you will soon be rid of this nightmare."
"This is the first time he has spoken in this manner since the beginning of the war. Truly powerful words."
This is a very complete disaster to a poor country like Uganda, sending the Army to fight in Iran won't help Uganda but increasing terrorist attacks to civilians
Two UPDF battalions, the 33rd and the 103rd, are on their way to Iran to fight alongside Israel and the United States. This follows the CDF’s pledge to Israel in the ongoing war, which is slowly crippling the world economy, as Iran continues to carry out cyberattacks against Uganda.