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‘A Wild Card’: Son of Uganda’s President Jostles to Succeed His Father
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 14, 2023 01:42pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Abdi Latif Dahir |
| News Date | Thursday, January 12, 2023 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | KAMPALA, Uganda — He has boasted that he could capture the capital of neighboring Kenya in two weeks. He has offered a dowry of 100 cows to marry Italy’s new female prime minister. And he has claimed that the majority of “non-white” people around the world supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
With a barrage of provocative, late-night Twitter posts in the last year, Muhoozi Kainerugaba — the 48-year-old son of the president of Uganda, and a military general — has unnerved Ugandans and regional allies, and become an embarrassment for President Yoweri Museveni, who has chided his eldest child publicly, apologized on his behalf and promised that his son would leave Twitter altogether.
But General Kainerugaba is still tweeting, raising his public profile as he tries to position himself to succeed his father, a close Western military ally whose landlocked nation receives almost a billion dollars in development assistance each year from the United States. General Kainerugaba has vowed not to “stop until we are in complete control” of Uganda.
His father has held an increasingly authoritarian grip on the country for 37 years, a six-term president who at 78 has already begun receiving endorsements to run in the 2026 elections. Ugandan political experts say he is unlikely ever to relinquish power. |
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