The Constitutional Court has stopped the Electoral Commission from deregistering the Kampala Central mayoral candidate Erias Lukwago from the Kampala mayoral race.
The Electoral Commission had summoned Lukwago for an explanation tomorrow after Geoffrey Serwadda asked EC to disqualify Lukwago for having been involved in a criminal case with the court martial in 2005.
MP Elias Lukwago
The directive issued by court judge Alice Mpagi Bahigeine today stops EC from hearing from Lukwago until the Constitutional Court listens to Lukwago’s defense.
After the petition from Serwadda to the EC, Lukwago appealed to the Constitutional Court asking it to declare the Court Martial an incompetent court. In 2005 the Court Martial charged Lukwago for contempt of court and it fined him 1,000 shillings.
Judge Bahegeine says they will first listen to Lukwago’s appeal before they allow EC to disqualify him.
Lukwago who is the current Kampala Central MP and a critic of the Museveni government says that the EC is used by the ruling government (NRM) to eliminate him from the mayoral race, which he claims he will surely win.
He says that last month they summoned him over the academic papers and this time it is the Court Martial case.