{"id":41966,"date":"2019-06-06T20:35:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=41966"},"modified":"2019-06-06T20:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:35:23","slug":"nrm-asked-court-to-dismiss-with-costs-a-case-filed-by-11-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/nrm-asked-court-to-dismiss-with-costs-a-case-filed-by-11-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"NRM asked court to dismiss with costs a case filed by 11 Mps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ruth Anderah.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The NRM party has asked the Constitutional Court to dismiss with costs a petition filed by 11 of its MPs who are opposing a resolution by Central Executive Committee to front President Yoweri Museveni as a sole candidate for the 2021 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>Through its lawyers of K$ K advocates, NRM claims the petition filed by MPs; raises no issues that require a constitutional interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>The MP&#8217;s include Theodore Sekikuubo, Monicah Amonding, Barnabas Tinkansiimire and John Baptist Nambeshe.<\/p>\n<p>According to the supporting affidavit sworn by the party&#8217;s director for legal services Oscar Kihika, CEC&#8217;s recommendation of president M7 is a political question and not a matter of judicial consideration to be adjudicated upon by a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>The party also maintains that declaring president M7 a sole presidential Candidate for 2021 elections, does not bar any one with qualifications to express interest to contest for the same position since it is not the final stage of a national election.<\/p>\n<p>The parties have now been summoned to appear before the Registrar of the court on June 13th 2019 for a conferencing meeting to agree on triable issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah.\u00a0 The NRM party has asked the Constitutional Court to dismiss with costs a petition filed by 11 of its MPs who are opposing a resolution by Central Executive Committee to front President Yoweri Museveni as a sole candidate for the 2021 presidential elections. Through its lawyers of K$ K advocates, NRM claims the petition filed by MPs; raises no issues that require a constitutional interpretation. The MP&#8217;s include Theodore Sekikuubo, Monicah Amonding, Barnabas Tinkansiimire and John Baptist Nambeshe. According to the supporting affidavit sworn by the party&#8217;s director for legal services Oscar Kihika, CEC&#8217;s recommendation of president M7 is a political question and not a matter of judicial consideration to be adjudicated upon by a court of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":40579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}