Uganda has dismissed reports circulating in Kenya that it (Uganda) did not cast its vote for Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohamed in her bid to clinch the AUC chairperson position.
In a statement made on Wednesday, the Ugandan Foreign Affairs ministry said that the claim was false.
"Uganda wishes to state categorically that our support to the candidature of Amina before and during elections was unequivocal," it read.
"Uganda wishes to reassure the government and the people of Kenya, and Amina in particular, that we remain a reliable ally and partner given our warm and close relations and our commitment to the EAC integration," it further states.
Uganda dismissed the "baseless assertions" by a section of the media questioning her commitment to Amina’s course.
However according to South Sudan’s ambassador to Ethiopia James Morgan, the countries abstained from voting and this had to do "with the way Kenya is relating with its neighbours", as reported by Standard.
Morgan further said that Uganda was not happy with how Kenya wanted "everything".