Uganda’s National Assembly Speaker Anita Annet Among’….Photo/CG
Kampala,Uganda
Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament, Anita Annet Among, has firmly—almost passionately—announced that she has zero interest in the presidency, a clarification that has only made the rumor mill work overtime.
Addressing the media, Among dismissed the chatter circulating on X and political corridors that she is quietly measuring curtains for State House.
“I have heard a section of people out there speaking. I don’t want to call it rubbish, but it is rubbish,” she said, before proceeding to call it… well, rubbish.
She insisted she has already “overachieved” in her current role—an interesting choice of words in a political environment where “overachieving” often means you’re just getting started.
Then came the timeline that has everyone doing mental math:
“In 2031, I am retiring from active politics.”
Six years, in African politics, is roughly the equivalent of “let’s see how things go.”
Among also pledged unwavering loyalty to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, saying she will support whoever he points at—politically, of course.
“If my brother is standing or anybody that the president shows me support, that is the person I will support,” she said, effectively placing her political future in the same basket as the ruling National Resistance Movement.
Analysts say the statement could mean many things:
a genuine retirement plan, a strategic cooling-off message, or the political equivalent of saying “I’m not hungry” while still holding the plate.
Critics and observers alike note that in Uganda’s politics, denying ambition is sometimes the first sign of it—or at least a sign that the timing isn’t right yet.
For now, Among has made her position clear: she is not running, not planning to run and definitely retiring… eventually.
Until then, she remains firmly in one of the most powerful seats in the country—just in case anyone was wondering where all this “rubbish” started.
