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Join us in celebrating Mama Miria Kalule Obote on her 90th birthday today. We honour her legacy, strength, and dedication to Uganda, Africa and the World. Wishing you good health, joy, and many more years. Happy 90th Birthday, Mama. @AkenaJimmyMP #MamaMiriaAt90

Wishing our EAC @jumuiya Founding Mothers Mama Maria Nyerere (96)🇹🇿 & Maama Miria Obote (90)🇺🇬 a blessed Sunday and week ahead🥂 I've been intrigued by the gesture of Ndugu Mheshimiwa Daktari @RuhakanaR visiting Maama Miria at her residence yesterday as she celebrated turning 90👍 As a muzzukulu of the two nonagenarians, I was thrilled when God enabled me organise their most recent meeting (frame 1 and 2) then in frame 3, during our Afrika Mashariki Fest's Twende Zetu Butiama Pilgrimage Safari Edition 1 in 2024 at Mwalimu Julius Nyerere's Ancestral Home, I was humbled connecting Amb. @Col_FMwesigye with Maama Miria Obote. Now I have a ask? Ninalo swali? Kati kankikinale mbuuze? None reka mbaze? As immunised bazzukulu who believe in the EAC Dream, have we engaged enough to tap into their wisdom banks before it gets too late!! Tukiamua kuambizana ukweli, baado uhuru na maendeleo ya kweli tusipojipanga kuhakikisha mtangamano wetu kama wananchi📌 @KagutaMuseveni, @NRMOnline @SuluhuSamia @ccm_tanzania @Parliament_Ug @TodwongR @mkainerugaba

HAPPY BELATED 90TH BIRTHDAY, MAMA MIRIA OBOTE Happy belated 90th Birthday, Mama Miria Obote. I want to thank you for remaining committed to Uganda 🇺🇬 despite our overthrow in 1985. I last saw you in person in Muthaiga, Nairobi, Kenya, in September 1985, and again in 1986. It is now about 41 years later, and I thank God for sustaining you with such strength and grace. For us original UPC members who have never belonged to any factions, our commitment remains unchanged. I also take this opportunity to thank Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda (@RuhakanaR) for always standing for a better Uganda. I remember our peace efforts for the people of Northern and Eastern Uganda, which helped silence the guns. I also thank the Government of H.E. President @KagutaMuseveni for its spirit of reconciliation towards many of us who served Uganda between 1978 and 1985—from the late Prof. Yusuf Lule, through the late President Godfrey Binaisa, the late Paul Muwanga, and the late President Apollo Milton Obote, until 27th July 1985. Thank you, Hon. Akena Obote (@AkenaJimmyMP), and your wife, for taking such good care of Mama Miria Obote. God bless you all. Dr. David Nyekorach-Matsanga Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱 19.07.2026

Saturday, November 1963. Namirembe Cathedral. 20,000 guests gathered as Uganda's bachelor prime minister married Miria Kalule. Jomo Kenyatta flew in. Martin Aliker stood as best man. The Kalule family, once wary, now accepted Obote as their son-in-law. For one day, a wedding promised what politics could not. The streets of Kampala hummed with celebration. Just over a year after independence, the Prime Minister was finally getting married. Loudspeakers carried the service to the crowds outside the cathedral, where thousands pressed against the grounds to witness a union that was never merely private. Archbishop Leslie Brown presided as the thirty-seven-year-old Obote exchanged vows with Miria Kalule, a daughter of Buganda's Protestant elite. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta added regional weight to the occasion, and Martin Aliker, Obote's confidant, stood beside him as best man. The political subtext was unmistakable. Obote's UPC was locked in an uneasy coalition with Kabaka Yekka, and marrying into Mengo society was a gesture that carried meaning beyond romance. For a northern politician whose party had challenged the old order, taking a Muganda bride from the heart of the Buganda establishment was itself a negotiation. Miria stood beside him, representing connection to the very community his government had clashed with during the independence struggle. Her family, who had once viewed the engagement with deep trepidation, had now accepted Milton as their son-in-law. The cathedral's ancient stones witnessed the formal joining of a northerner's ambition and a kingdom's daughter. The reception at Lugogo Stadium Hall dazzled. Three thousand VIP guests toasted with champagne at tables decorated with fresh carnations flown from Kenya. Outside on the cricket field, thousands more celebrated under open sky, consuming over sixty thousand bottles of beer. The twenty-five-thousand-pound price tag, partly borne by Obote, reflected political necessity: a wedding of this scale affirmed that Uganda's leader could command both tradition and modernity. For the guests, it was a spectacle of national pride. For the politicians watching, it was a carefully staged performance of unity in a country already fractured along regional and ethnic lines. As the couple cut their towering cake beneath the stadium lights, the celebration transcended personal union. This was a national event, a statement that Uganda's bachelor leader had chosen a path that blended personal life with political symbolism. The wedding bands exchanged at Namirembe were, in a sense, a treaty, a public promise that the UPC and Buganda could coexist, at least for a little while longer. Yet even as the champagne flowed, the old tensions did not disappear. Within three years, Obote would turn against the Kabaka, abolish the kingdoms, and drive the Buganda establishment into open rebellion. Miria, who had walked down the cathedral aisle as a symbol of bridge-building, would find herself trapped between her husband's state and her family's loyalties. But on that November Saturday, none of that was visible. The twenty thousand guests saw only the joy of a leader settling down, the elegance of a First Lady, and the promise of a nation still young enough to believe that weddings could heal what politics could not. For one day, Kampala held its breath and celebrated, and the photograph of the couple cutting their cake became the image of a Uganda that, however briefly, felt whole. The wedding was a treaty as much as a vow. For one day, the alliance held. What does it mean to celebrate unity in a cathedral, knowing the forces that will one day tear it apart are already in the room? #UgHistory #Obote @UPCSecretariat @AkenaJimmyMP

Thank U @RuhakanaR 4 being there for Mama Miria Obote & family. Thank you @KagutaMuseveni for the love & support to Mama. Madam @JaneBarekye the memorial album brough history memories back to many guests today. Glorious tributes from @mugishamuntu @MiriaDr @ Chris Rwakasisi etc.

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I was pleased this afternoon to join Mama Miria Obote at her home as she celebrated her 90th birthday. Among those present were Jimmy Akena, his aunt Jane Akullu Pole (aged 99), and Anita Mpambara Cox, an Ugandan-born political leader based in the United States. We thank Mama Miria for her wisdom, grace, and enduring love for the people of Uganda and our country. May God continue to bless her with many more years of good health and happiness

@KagutaMuseveni May his soul rest in peace 🙏

It is with deep sorrow that I announce the death of our brother Gen. Moses Ali. He died today at Nakasero Hospital, at 1600 hours. Gen Moses Ali has provided service to his country for a long time, as a soldier and a political leader. In the West Nile region, he provided the good example of being a big modern farmer. We shall miss greatly his contribution. May the Almighty God rest his soul in eternal peace.

Comrades Pan Africanists, please join me to wish one of our EAC Founding Mothers - Maama Miria Kalule Obote a joyous and reflective 90th Birthday🥂 Mungu ni mwema wakati wowote🙏 Tunashukuru Mola kwa kuwezesha Maama Miria kutimiza umri wa miaka 90 duniani. Zetu Dua kwake Mwenyezi Mungu mwingi wa rehema nikwamba, aziidi kumulinda na kumjalia afya njema na maisha marefu yenye furaha na hekima ili akaweze kushuhudia mtangamano wa @jumuiya yetu🙏 By "Emptying" a bit of our supposedly "Full cups" to listen to our elders, we assuredly can avoid costly mistakes and gain valuable/profound insights into personal growth, relationships, and emotional maturity. Let that sink in📌 @KagutaMuseveni @RuhakanaR @NRMOnline @UPCSecretariat @AkenaJimmyMP @Parliament_Ug

Thank you so much Rt. Hon. @RuhakanaR for this wonderful courtesy call

@RuhakanaR paid a courtesy call and gave his birthday gift to Maama Miria Obote.

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This Grandmother is 90 Today! Today, we celebrate Maama Miria Kalule Obote as she marks her 90th birthday. As part of our #GoGrandma campaign, we honor her as a grandmother whose life has been woven into the story of our nation. She served as Uganda’s Second First Lady, represented our country at the 1985 United Nations World Conference on Women in Nairobi, and later became the first woman to lead a major political party in Uganda, even offering herself for the highest office in the land. Above all these titles, she is a grandmother, a matriarch, and an elder whose life spans generations of Uganda’s history. Happy 90th Birthday, Maama Miria Kalule Obote. May you continue to know good health, peace and the love of your family. #GoGrandma #CelebratingGrandmothers #AfricanGenerosity @GivingTueAfrica @CivsourceAfrica

@AndrewOmara8 @asiimwe4justice Happy Birthday Mama Miria Kalule Obote

@asiimwe4justice Happy birthday🎂🎁🎁 dear Mama 👏👏

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UPC PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS This is to invite and inform all⁩ media houses that the UPC President Hon. @AkenaJimmyMP will address media on Wed., 15th July 2026 at 11 a.m at Party Headquarters,Uganda House - 6th floor. We appreciate your continued partnership. Spokesperson

Applications for the 4th Cohort of the Uganda Democracy Academy are now open! @NimdUganda is inviting all youth leaders aged 18-30 to apply by 🗓 July 17, 2026. To apply, send an email to your political party, the National Youth Council (@NYCofUganda), the Uganda National Students Association (@unsaugofficial) or the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Youth Affairs (@UPFYA_2008) using the emails below: ANT - alasoasianut@gmail.com DP - geraldsiranda@gmail.com FDC - info@fdc.ug UPC - faizomoze@gmail.com NRM - ronaldkomakech89@yahoo.com PFF - info@pff.ug UNSA - blessedshillah@gmail.com NYC - danielongom8@gmail.com UPFYA - emmanuelmuliisa442@gmail.com #DemocracyAcademyUG #Dialogue #NIMD

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