National Unity Platform president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has appealed to party supporters to contribute funds as he continues his presidential campaign.

“Please contribute to our campaign by donating through any of these platforms,” Bobi Wine wrote in social media posts that listed five phone numbers and two mobile money accounts for those who want to make donations.

“You may also bring your contribution to the accounts office at the National Unity Platform Headquarters, Makerere-Kavule,” he added, using the hashtag #ANewUgandaNow, which is his campaign’s slogan.

NUP, which became the largest opposition party in the 2021 elections after sweeping Buganda, which had been a stronghold of the ruling NRM for decades, is largely financed from members’ contributions.

But many of the party’s members are young Ugandans without regular sources of income. The party, which unveiled its headquarters in Makerere-Kavule in November 2023, is also relying on Ugandans in the diaspora for financial contributions, but it still needs massive resources to compete favourably with the NRM, widely seen as having unfettered access to state resources.

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NUP has been trying to join the Interparty Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) to access money that parties with parliamentary seats are given to fund their activities. But the party still has to agree to a Memorandum of Understanding with the government and comply with requirements outlined in IPOD’s framework.

Bobi Wine is one of the seven candidates challenging President Yoweri Museveni, who came to power in 1986, contested his first election in 1996 and is now standing for re-election for the sixth time.

While launching his campaign in West Nile on Monday, Bobi Wine said: “We have been warmly welcomed by a big crowd of supporters who convened to listen to our gospel of freedom. Unfortunately, the terrible state of the dusty roads has disabled us from reaching our people of Madi-Okollo on time.”

His campaign team has also shared photos on social media of rickety homes with tin roofs in Western Uganda, surprising many Ugandans who have long believed that the people in the region from which the current president hails are not living in poverty.

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