Vice President of Uganda

The vice president of Uganda is the second-highest executive official in the Ugandan government. Vice President is appointed by the President.

Vice presidents of Uganda[]

Name	Inaugurated	Left office	President	Notes
	October 1963	April 1966	Edward Mutesa	Deposed during the Mengo Crisis
John Babiiha	April 1966	January 1971	Milton Obote	Deposed in the 1971 coup d'état
Vacant	January 1971	January 1977
Mustafa Adrisi	January 1977	Disputed; de facto April 1978	Idi Amin	Adrisi was factually disempowered by President Idi Amin in April 1978, but refused to accept his dismissal as Vice President. He remained in Uganda until mid-1979, maintaining a low profile but still claiming to be Vice President.^[2] When Amin was overthrown in the Uganda–Tanzania War, Adrisi fled into exile where he continued to pose as Vice President.^[3]
Disputed; claimed by Mustafa Adrisi	November 1978	December 1980
Paulo Muwanga	December 1980	July 1985	Milton Obote	Deposed in the 1985 coup d'état
Vacant	July 1985	January 22, 1991
Samson Kisekka	January 22, 1991	November 1994	Yoweri Museveni
Specioza Kazibwe	November 18, 1994	May 21, 2003		The first woman in Africa to hold the position of vice-president of a sovereign nation
Gilbert Bukenya	May 23, 2003	May 23, 2011
Edward Ssekandi	May 24, 2011	June 21, 2021
Jessica Alupo	June 21, 2021	Incumbent		The Second Woman Vice President of Uganda after Specioza Wandera Kazibwe

^ Mwakikagile, Godfrey (1 February 2013). Uganda: A Nation in Transition : Post-colonial Analysis. New Africa Press. ISBN 9789987160358. Retrieved 21 September 2017 – via Google Books.
^ Avirgan & Honey 1983, pp. 49–50.
^ Reid 2017, p. 71.

Avirgan, Tony; Honey, Martha (1983). War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin. Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House. ISBN 978-9976-1-0056-3.
Reid, Richard J. (2017). A History of Modern Uganda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-06720-2.