10/11/2026
🔴Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces and Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has publicly stated that Vice President Jessica Alupo will be removed from government “soon.”
In a post on his official X account on Monday evening, Muhoozi wrote:
“As Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Jessica will be dismissed from our government soon. We have very many supporters in Teso. We don't have to rely on traitors.”
The statement is widely understood to refer to incumbent Vice President Jessica Alupo (a retired Major from the Teso sub-region), who has held the post since 2021 and was recently re-approved by Parliament.
The post continues a series of remarks by Muhoozi targeting the Vice Presidency. Days earlier, on November 5, he posted: “I hear there is a young woman called Jessica who has been warming my seat for long enough. Maybe its time for her to leave.” Ugandan media and political observers widely interpreted that message as a reference to Alupo and a signal that Muhoozi is positioning himself for the office.
On the same day as the latest post, Muhoozi also wrote:
“As Vice President, the government will operate on military terms. There will be no more inefficiency.”
Accusations that Alupo had “supported Amama Mbabazi to the maximum” during the 2015–16 challenge to President Museveni, and that there were “strong signals” she supported the “treachery of Elweru.”
Muhoozi, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, has been Chief of Defence Forces since March 2024. He has previously indicated that his time as CDF is winding down and that he intends to contest the presidency in 2031. Speculation about him becoming Vice President as a possible stepping stone has intensified in recent days, though neither President Museveni nor any official government source has confirmed any change.
Alupo remains the serving Vice President. No formal dismissal order or cabinet reshuffle has been announced by the Presidency as of this report.
