“Wycliff Kasaija Kizza, 23, a final-year Business student at Kampala International University, has announced his bid for the Ugandan presidency in the 2026 General Election, aiming to end President Museveni’s four-decade rule. Kasaija plans to drive economic growth by leveraging Uganda’s petroleum resources, drawing inspiration from the UAE’s development model. He also stresses the importance of youth-led efforts in promoting sustainable development” (David Walugembe – NTV Uganda, 20.06.2025).
On Friday 20th June of 2025, Wycliff Kasaija Kizza launched his Presidential bid for the General Elections of 2026. We have seen this game before and this will fall flat. A young gun without a political platform or nationwide support.
This sort of game has been played out before and done without any sort of flair. That has been done in 2016 and 2021 elections. Where young wild cards are independently running for the Presidency. Meanwhile, they lack the acumen, articulation or even a plan or a manifesto to prove sincere political gameplan. They are just doing this to create clout and become a well-known name.
These sorts of candidates won’t win hearts or make themselves electable. No, they will become jokes and the person itself becomes a punchline. They are just mere puns and nothing more. That’s why he will end up in the lines of Joseph Mabarizi or John Katumba. These were just young guns who didn’t have a shot or even a destination with their causes.
Nothing wrong with ambition, but it’s wise to prove your worth first. Secondly, when you’re running for the highest office of the land. It would be smart to be a known character and someone we know anything about. Not like a personality or have even a public profile. That’s why it’s futile. Even others with bigger name and been in the political sphere for years has failed as Presidential Candidates.
That’s why these youthful candidates are only filling in the forms and giving the electorate choices. Even if the choice is a waste and he would be better to run as a Local Councillor or LCV and start from the ground up. That way he would go through the ranks and become a local phenomenon, instead he becomes the butt of a joke.
Wycliff Kasaija Kizza needs guidance… but I doubt he will get any or listen. Not like he created headlines or even made any fuzz surrounding the launch. No, it went away like hot air. Because there is nothing and it’s pointless. Peace.
MinBane 