By skyforbes 
The Uganda Electoral body told PesaCheck that the account is fake and not owned by the commission.
This TikTok account, claiming to be operated by the Uganda Electoral Commission and sharing pro- National Resistance Movement (NRM) content, is FAKE.
The account, named “Uganda Elections 2026”, displays the official Uganda Electoral Commission logo but has been posting promotional material for NRM candidates including presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni.
However, the account does not belong to the Uganda Electoral Commission and is not affiliated with the organisation.
Paul Bukenya, the media and public relations manager at the Uganda Electoral Commission, told PesaCheck that the account is fake and not owned by the commission.
Bukenya stated: “This is not ours and it’s not affiliated with EC. I flagged it to TikTok for using our logo. We are awaiting conclusive feedback from them.”
According to its website, the official TikTok channel of the Electoral Commission is this one.
PesaCheck has looked into a TikTok account claiming to be operated by the Uganda Electoral Commission and sharing pro-NRM content and finds it to be FAKE.
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 Senior PesaCheck fact-checker Pius Enywaru and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Mary Mutisya.
The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck’s 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.
PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.