{"id":54615,"date":"2025-06-23T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gen-muhoozi-lauds-sister-in-law-for-exiting-ugandan-parliamentary-race-in\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:34:57","slug":"gen-muhoozi-lauds-sister-in-law-for-exiting-ugandan-parliamentary-race-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gen-muhoozi-lauds-sister-in-law-for-exiting-ugandan-parliamentary-race-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Muhoozi lauds sister-in-law for exiting Ugandan parliamentary race in favour of uncle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shartsi Kutesa Musherure is the sister of Gen Muhoozi\u2019s wife, Charlotte Kainerugaba. She is a Member of Parliament representing the ruling party, NRM, for the Mawogola North constituency in Uganda\u2019s Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>As Uganda gears up for parliamentary elections, it was expected that Shartsi Kutesa Musherure would seek re-election.<\/p>\n<p>However, her re-election bid had put her at odds with Sodo Aine Kaguta, the younger brother of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and also Gen Muhoozi\u2019s uncle, as he, too, is eyeing the same seat.<\/p>\n<p>To ease tensions, on Sunday, June 22, 2025, Shartsi Musherure announced she would no longer contest for the seat, citing \u201crespect for the President, Chairman of the NRM Party,\u201d and a desire \u201cto maintain the unity of the NRM party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a message shared on Monday, Gen Muhoozi expressed appreciation for his sister-in-law\u2019s decision to step aside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Mawogola North, I applaud and congratulate my sister Hon.Shartsi.  Government posts do not define a person. Shartsi is welcome to the struggle. I&#8217;m happy to have her as my fellow companion,&#8221; Gen Muhoozi wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Following Musherure\u2019s withdrawal, President Museveni\u2019s younger brother visited Mawogola North on Monday to engage with local residents as he seeks to represent the area in Parliament.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-89652 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/shartsi-kutesa1-dba68.jpg\" alt=\"As Uganda gears up for parliamentary elections, it was expected that Shartsi Kutesa Musherure would seek re-election.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-89653 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sodo-aine-kaguta-65809-ad561.jpg\" alt=\"Sodo Aine Kaguta, the younger brother of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and also Gen Muhoozi\u2019s uncle is eyeing the Mawogola North Parliamentary seat.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has praised his sister-in-law, Shartsi Kutesa Musherure, for her decision not to run again for a seat in Uganda\u2019s Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000089650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000089650,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gen__muhoozi-2-54cef.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gen__muhoozi-2-54cef.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gen__muhoozi-2-54cef.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gen__muhoozi-2-54cef.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gen__muhoozi-2-54cef.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gen__muhoozi-2-54cef.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000089650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54615"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54615"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}