{"id":137022,"date":"2026-04-08T14:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ugandan-president-museveni-to-be-sworn-on-may-12\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:02:51","slug":"ugandan-president-museveni-to-be-sworn-on-may-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ugandan-president-museveni-to-be-sworn-on-may-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan President Museveni to be sworn on May 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Apr 8 \u2013 President Yoweri <\/strong>Mus<strong>eveni will take the oath of office on 12th May 2026 at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds, Kampala.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A statement by the Uganda Media Centre stated that the inauguration will be held under the theme \u201cProtecting the Gains, Making a Qualitative Leap into High Middle-Income Status\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Museveni, 82, has led Uganda since seizing power through an armed rebellion in January 1986.<\/p>\n<p>He won the January 2026 general election with 71.65 per cent of the vote, according to official results read out by Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama.<\/p>\n<p>His closest rival, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the musician and opposition leader better known as Bobi Wine had 24.72 per cent.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Apr 8 \u2013 President Yoweri Museveni will take the oath of office on 12th May 2026 at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds, Kampala. A statement by the Uganda Media Centre stated that the inauguration will be held under the theme \u201cProtecting the Gains, Making a Qualitative Leap into High Middle-Income Status\u201d. Museveni, 82, has led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}