Uganda’s People’s Front for Freedom (PFF), a political party led by Ugandan long term opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye, has announced it will not field a presidential candidate in the 2026 general election.

”Our leadership held a press conference and key to note were points around the upcoming 2026 military operation to keep the senile dictator in power and the illegal detention and countrywide abductions”.

”In the bid to counter the junta, the PFF shall not field a presidential candidate but will rally behind a joint presidential candidate who will run the FREEDOM CAMPAIGN to counter the military expedition”. Reads the party statement

PFF to this end has set up a 28 member National Campaign Team which will be led by party  leader Dr. Kizza Besigye and their sole mandate be to traverse the country to spreading the freedom message.

The party’s decision comes after Besigye, the chairperson of the Council of Eminent Persons in the party, together with his aide, Obeid Lutale, were abducted from Nairobi, Kenya on November 16, 2024.

The two were deported to Kampala, where they face charges of illegal possession of firearms, ammunition and treachery.

The party’s Secretary General and Spokesperson Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda told reporters on Monday that the decision was intended to support a unified opposition front against president Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party.

President Museveni, in power for nearly four decades is seeking re-election in the upcoming polls.