‘Makerere University Business School has awakened and want a Guild President for 2015/16’ is what the Electoral Commission chairman said when he opened the nomination process two weeks back. The MUBS Guild campaigns that got underway last Friday after the candidates were successfully vetted by the Electoral Commission seem to be taking an interesting twist.
The race has become tight amongst all the candidates who, all have strong camps to boost of. Aijuka Evelyn on the NRM ticket, Don Patrick Buggingo on the DP ticket, Nakiggude Mariam on the FDC ticket and finally Birungi Victor who is on the Independent ticket are the solid candidates that are in the quest and strongly thirst to take up from HE Yoram Banyenzaki’s (current guild president) government.
As any other university on the road to guild elections, hype surrounds itself around the favorites to take up the seat; well you will be wrong when you start taking conclusions as regards MUBS guild elections. All the four candidates prove a threat to one another and this makes it a difficult election to predict.
Don Patrick Buggingo the DP candidate who btw is also the ladies favorite, has purely loyal fans that kneel at all his rallies. He has a large following all chanting ‘If it’s not DON, it’s not safe”. When most fans (Mostly babes) are asked why they support Don, they can’t come up with a satisfactory answer but simply love the ‘DON in Buggiingo’. This has earned him many fans with some coming as a result of bandwagon effect.
Aijuka Evelyn the NRM candidate has elite fans who take heart to believe her manifesto. She has served MUBS as the Guild Speaker and is coming to take on the race for guild president. She is a charismatic speaker and speaks with all the zeal and vigour. A one Ssemanda Charles doing Business Administration was heard swearing that he is giving Evelyn his vote because she is cute and a good orator.
Nakiggude Mariam of the FDC who was not known to many until she was declared FDC flag-bearer, is also a guild candidate that moves around promising the students a bright future with her in the seat. She walks with a small team of loyal fans and a big blue key which is the FDC symbol. Some have referred to her as the ‘walking guild president’ because she walks at most of her rallies to greet and talk to students….talk of humility.
Birungi Victor, an independent candidate who has been nicknamed the Bala David (Makerere University guild president elect) of MUBS because of the legal battles he has fought with the administration is also a ‘jigger in the toe’ to both the admin and the rest of the candidates. He was Deputy Guild Speaker and has also had his ups and downs with the administration. He has vowed to the students to bring a ‘Realistic MUBS they all want’. “Making it to the candidate list was not easy and I am here to fight for the students’ rights,” noted Victor on one of his rallies.
Let the battlefield tremble as we await the sole lion or lioness that that’ll take over the throne come this Friday.
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