Mr Richard Todwong, the Deputy Secretary General for National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has ordered individuals who plan to run for electoral offices to pull down their campaign posters from social media.
Addressing journalists in Gulu town recently, Todwong noted that the Electoral Commission has not yet declared official campaigns ahead of the 2016 General Elections and that it is illegal for anyone to put up campaign posters even on social media.
He said, “It should not be those who have subscribed to the NRM party who should start breaking the law on elections.”
Todwong ordered that those who have uploaded their photos on social media such as facebook should bring it down or face the consequence.
However, the senior NRM official did not divulge any details about the consequence of what he described as breaking the electoral laws of the country.
According to Todwong, currently, they are compiling a list of those who have stubbornly continued to upload their campaign posters online.
Dozens of NRM members have taken to social media to show their interest in running for electoral positions come 2016.
Recently, opposition parties in Gulu were angered by posters of President Yoweri Museveni that were pinned up all over Gulu town when he came to commission the Gulu Main Market.
The law on election bars candidates from campaigning and pinning up posters unless the days are gazetted.
Last Thursday, the NRM electoral commission chairman, Dr Tanga Odoi, brought down hundreds of posters of candidates in the party primary elections in Iganga District.
Dr Odoi removed the posters on Monday, saying the party banned early campaigns earlier this year.
Under the new guidelines, the registration of members, which has been the function of village chairpersons, has been placed in the hands of village registrars.
The NRM official said any form of early campaigning; including the distribution of posters might result into disqualification of whoever will be found culpable.
