On October,3, the constitutional amendment bill that sought among other issues to scrap the age limit for presidential candidates from the Constitution was tabled for the first reading on the floor of parliament. Yellow clothes including cap, shoes, trouser, shirt and vehicle were part of his trademark wear. Meanwhile, Arua municipality MP Ibrahim Abiriga became the champion of the lifting of the age limit and was at one time involved in a fist fight with his Ayivu counterpart Bernard Atiku (Ayivu) over unclear circumstances but some people say it is because of the former’s big voice on scrapping of the age limit. “Whoever is talking about the bill is misguided and has no background to it.I don’t have time for speculation.” “I hear a lot about it but I don’t follow it because I am busy with my programs, “Museveni responded to a question from journalists. Speaking at a press conference at State House in Entebbe, Museveni denied knowledge of any bill intended to lift the age limit. Meanwhile, Museveni cleared the air on the talk of age limit that was doing rounds in various corridors and public domains.

NRM MPs got Shs 500,000 “allowance” to endorse age-limit bill Many people especially politicians claimed that lifting of the presidential age limit was meant to benefit president Museveni who is 73 years and by the end of his current term in office, he would have clocked the maximum age limit of 75 years for a presidential candidate. “All the articles of the Constitution are up for amendment if the people of Uganda so choose,” he said.

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