The country's longest-serving president is on the path of ruling for a lifetime after the same court ruled that the abolishment of presidential age limit by Parliament last year was legal -- giving him a chance to contest again in 2021.

Museveni has termed the Constitutional Court's ruling on MPs tenure as "just a theatre of democracy of form without addressing substance".

In a statement issued on Monday, he criticises the country's judges on spending "more time on form and not substance, on procedure and not substance". He argues that age limit ruling focuses on convenience since a lot of time is spent "electioneering and less time on development".

"My freedom fighter’s sense of justice, in this matter (the age limit ruling) focuses more on the convenience of 7 years rather than 5 years. With the 5 years, a lot of time is spent on electioneering and less time on development; the 1st two years settling in, the 3rd year some work in the constituency and, then, by the 4th year, electioneering again," the country's president since 1986 says.

Judges or no judges

The leader of the East African nation is committed to make necessary Constitutional reforms with "judges or no judges".

He says the "judges are not the ones in charge of the country" and that necessary Constitutional reforms will be made if "NRM MPs follow my guidelines and bond closely with the people, through wealth and job creation".

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"We shall harmonise and galvanize our position. The undemocratic age limit nonsense was clear. "Nibagaya Engabo oti mwihemu abagurusi?" (How can you say old soldiers should be disqualified when everybody’s efforts are needed because the good soldiers are not enough?)".

Meanwhile, the petitioners in the age limit petition have filed to Supreme Court challenging the Constitutional Court's ruling on presidential age limit. They want the decision to abolish the age limit clause in the Constitution reversed.