Nakawa East Election Results: Waiswa Mufumbiro Not Declared Winner

This TikTok post claiming that the Electoral Commission (EC) pronounced Waiswa Mufumbiro the winner of the Nakawa East Constituency parliamentary seat is FALSE. Mufumbiro, the Ugandan opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) deputy spokesperson, was arrested in 2025 on incitement charges and remained in remand throughout the 15 January 2026 presidential and parliamentary electoral period. While Mufumbiro was nominated to participate in the 15 January 2026 parliamentary elections while in prison, the EC did not declare him the winner of the parliamentary seat. A keyword search led to credible reports indicating that Fred Ruhindi, the flagbearer of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, was declared the winner in the constituency. News reports show Ruhindi polled 18,555 votes against Mufumbiro’s 15,186. PesaCheck looked into a TikTok post claiming that NUP deputy spokesperson Alex Mufumbiro was declared the winner of the Nakawa East Constituency parliamentary seat and found it to be FALSE. This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms. By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds. Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here's more information on PesaCheck's methodology for fact-checking questionable content. This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Flavia Nassaka and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Mary Mutisya and chief copy editorStephen Ndegwa. The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah. PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water/ sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.