A simmering storm is brewing among presidential aspirants after what they describe as the Electoral Commission’s (EC) “bewildering opacity” in verifying supporter signatures.Youthful contenders, armed with bundles of signatures and boundless ambition, yesterday accused the EC of leaving them “dangling in the bureaucratic wilderness,” unsure of whether their supporters’ ink shall translate into a nomination ticket.Mr Alvin Mivule, a 24-year-old Law student at Victoria University, lamented that the EC’s slow-motion process could be “a recipe for last-minute disqualification.”“The verification is crawling at the pace of a tortoise with arthritis. We are 19 aspirants, yet not a single soul has been cleared. With just days to nominations, this is a constitutional catastrophe in the making,” Mivule charged.But it was flamboyant aspirant David William Magyezi, 24, who unleashed his trademark bombastic English. Having submitted his signatures last week, he said he is still stuck in “a Kafkaesque corridor of uncertainty.”“I am here to exhume clarity from the EC’s vault of silence,” Magyezi declared. “The Commission is behaving like a reluctant oracle—receiving our scrolls of signatures yet refusing to prophesy whether they are genuine or ghostly. If they require supplementary autographs, I would rather know now than be ambushed at the eleventh hour with electoral Greek tragedies.”He warned that any delay could amount to “political asphyxiation of independent candidates,” adding that “the EC must avoid turning this noble democratic exercise into a theatre of confusion, where youthful gladiators are sacrificed on the altar of procedural procrastination.”Political parties too are drumming the same tune. The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), which claims to have submitted a staggering two million signatures, urged the EC to “liberate the process from bureaucratic paralysis.”In response, EC spokesperson Julius Mucunguzi assured that “the machinery of verification is in its advanced gears” and that feedback would flow in the coming days. He emphasized that the law only requires 9,800 signatures, and once that threshold is authenticated, aspirants will receive clearance or guidance to make corrections.By last evening, the EC had received signatures from 20 aspirants—nine from political parties and 11 independents—though none had been cleared. NUP reportedly submitted 200,000 signatures, while NRM and FDC crossed the two-million mark.Yet for aspirants like Magyezi, the issue is not about numbers but about clarity. As he put it with his linguistic fireworks:“We did not traverse 106 districts, sweating under the sun and moon, to be stranded in a fog of silence. Democracy should not be a mirage in the Sahara of bureaucracy. We demand lucidity, not lullabies.”The post David William Magyezi Cries Foul!!! ‘EC Has Locked Us In a Labyrinth Of Verification Without Compass’ appeared first on The Insider.