{"id":10476,"date":"2025-11-04T15:35:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=10476"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:42:38","slug":"ec-chairperson-warns-rdcs-against-blocking-candidates-from-campaign-venues-and-radio-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2025\/11\/04\/ec-chairperson-warns-rdcs-against-blocking-candidates-from-campaign-venues-and-radio-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"EC Chairperson Warns RDCs Against Blocking Candidates from Campaign Venues and Radio Shows."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Johnson Kanyesige<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama, has issued a stern warning to Resident District Commissioners (RDCs) accused of blocking political candidates from accessing designated campaign venues and appearing on radio talk shows.<\/p>\n<p>Byabakama made the remarks on Monday while addressing journalists at the EC headquarters in Kampala\u2019s Industrial Area after a meeting with presidential candidate agents and the Uganda Police Force to assess the campaign process, which started a month ago.\u00a0He described the conduct of some RDCs as \u201cvery wrong\u201d and contrary to Uganda\u2019s constitutional and electoral framework.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am told that some RDCs are blocking candidates from accessing or holding rallies at designated campaign venues, which is very wrong. I am going to take up this matter with the Minister for the Presidency because I understand she is the one in charge of the RDCs,\u201d Byabakama said.<\/p>\n<p>The EC Chairperson emphasized that all duly nominated presidential candidates have the constitutional right to freely conduct campaigns across the country.\u00a0\u201cEvery candidate who was duly nominated and has indicated his campaign program and harmonized with others is at liberty to go to any part of the country and carry out campaigns at a designated venue,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Byabakama noted that the cancellation of campaign venues without valid reasons undermines the integrity of the electoral process and creates unnecessary tension during what should be a peaceful campaign period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He assured the public that the Commission would engage the Office of the Presidency to ensure RDCs respect the rights of candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Kanyesige The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama, has issued a stern warning to Resident District Commissioners (RDCs) accused of blocking political candidates from accessing designated campaign venues and appearing on radio talk shows. Byabakama made the remarks on Monday while addressing journalists at the EC headquarters in Kampala\u2019s Industrial Area after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-news","9":"category-politics"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10483,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476\/revisions\/10483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}