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The Ugandan judiciary paved the way today for President Yoweri Museveni, 73, to run for a sixth term in elections scheduled for 2021, an AFP journalist said. In power for 31 years, the Ugandan head of state enacted a law in January abolishing the age limit of 75 to run for president, angering the opposition who denounced "a presidency for life
A coalition of opposition parties then went to court. Sitting in the remote town of Mbale, about 225 km east of Kampala, a majority of constitutional judges ruled in favor of repealing the law setting the age limit at 75.
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The law promulgated by Mr. Museveni also reintroduced a limit to the number of presidential terms, removed in 2005. Mr. Museveni , who came to power in 1986 as head of the rebel army, said leaders "staying too long" in power embodied the roots of Africa's evils.
But while he was In 2016, he declared that the time had not yet come for him to leave, claiming that he still had a lot of work to do.
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