2026 polls: Gen Muntu graces PFF Mbarara event

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Presidential aspirant Maj. Gen. (rtd) Mugisha Muntu has attended the newly formed People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) party’s inauguration of the Ankole federal state and the opening of its office in Mbarara City.

Muntu, who is the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party presidential candidate in the 2026 general election, was described as PFF’s special guest at the event on Wednesday, July 30.

PFF leaders who attended the first-ever launch of their regional states included chief of staff Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, deputy chairman of Buganda Dr Lulume Bayigga, and speaker Salaam Musumba, among others.

At the time of writing this story, the event had just started.

On July 2, 2025, the two parties signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Hotel Africana in Kampala to cooperate ahead of the 2026 election.

“We are assembled here to witness the birth of a political cooperation which will be preceded by the signing of an MoU that will commit us to a number of issues our leaders will present to the nation. There is a demand from the population that we need to work together to change the government,” Ssemujju, who is also Kira Municipality MP, said.

He noted that the leaders of the two parties took different paths after breaking away from the Forum for Democratic Change to form rival parties because of “some disagreements”, which are part of natural processes.

Ssemujju, however, noted that this process of signing an MOU has been smooth due to the many common values and goals the two parties share.

“There is a demand outside for us to get together, like in a family. If a mother and a father have a disagreement, the children will demand that they come together again. Disagreements happen in life; they are part of natural processes,” he argued.