Mawokota South MP Yusuf Nsibambi has said he feels voters treated him “like a pig” after he lost his seat to NRM’s Susan Nakawuki on January 15.
Speaking to CBS Radio, Nsibambi described his defeat as driven by intrigue and religious influence rather than performance.
“In Islam, you can’t allow a pig to die of thirst. If you do, you go to hell. But if you chase me like a pig when I have a family and a name, I leave you,” Nsibambi said, suggesting that the manner in which voters rejected him was humiliating and unjust.
Nsibambi said he would not challenge the results in court and had decided to quit active politics.
“I am not going to court. I will not go back to politics. Let us leave the new leaders [to work],” he said.
The 60-year-old legislator, who had represented Mawokota South since 2021, defended his record, saying he had delivered services that previous MPs had not.
He cited the construction of boreholes, road repairs, extension of electricity, bursaries for 60 students, distribution of beans and the establishment of garbage collection systems in areas such as Kayabwe and Nabusanke.
“There has never been intrigue in Mawokota South before. Since 1996, MPs here have been Catholic, but none of them built boreholes. I came to serve,” he said.
Nsibambi blamed his loss partly on religious leaders, whom he accused of directing voters on who to elect.
“I do not blame voters because they look at religious people as if they are next to God. That is where the problem is,” he said.
He said he was particularly hurt by losing in Buwama, an area where he said he had implemented many projects.
“When I heard that I had been defeated in Buwama, I went and slept,” he said.
Nsibambi, a former lecturer at Makerere University School of Law, said he felt disrespected after losing to a much younger opponent.
“At Makerere, I was voted best lecturer twice. My colleagues are now Supreme Court judges. Now I come back here and stand with people fit to be my grandchildren,” he said.
Nsibambi said he garnered about 6,800 votes, a sharp drop from the 25,000 votes he received in 2021, but maintained that he had entered politics to serve, not to cling to power.
“I thank the voters, but I hate intrigue,” he said.
