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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Newly-formed Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party says it is resolved to build a formidable force in the country’s political landscape.
Alliance for National Transformation leader, Major General Mugisha Muntu says it is too early for Ugandans to judge him and his colleagues based on some of the failures in their former party Forum for Democratic Change(FDC)
Muntu who lead a group of former FDC members into forming the new party says it is only after time has passed that those that have questions why they quit FDC will understand whether it was good or not for FC and the entire opposition.
He says many people are judging them by what they say. But he insists that would be a big error on part of those that believe so.
Mugisha Muntu’s decision to quit Forum For Democratic last continues to generate debate. Some have claimed that it was one of the tactics by the ruling National Resistance Movement to further weaken FDC.
Muntu speaking at Hotel Africana said that it was inevitable that they quit Najjanakumbi to form a new party that is to be launched on May 24th.
Muntu, has over the years disagreed with some of the methods of his the former FDC president, Dr. Kiiza Besigye and other opposition leaders in trying to fore the ruling NRM out of power. He says the defiance campaign will not for General Museveni’s regime out of power.
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What goes around…, comes around. General Mugisha Muntu was FDC secretary for mobilization and President up until 2017. When he lost the contest for the party president, he hashed a “consultative campaign” seeking views from the party membership on how the party should be run even when it was clear that the party had chosen and preferred a position contrary to what his campaign presented. General Muntu made another “u-turn”, he had earlier stated that after the consultations he would present the findings to the party and it would be upon how the party handled the given findings that would form his final decision. However, at the time the good general handed over his findings, Mr. Biharwe who is the acting chairman of his newly founded party had already declared that they were on their way out.
Mr. Muntu has accused his former party of so many bad things. But his accusations are a matter of one cutting off one’s nose to spite their faces. At the inception of the FDC, Gen Muntu became its secretary for mobilization, a position he held until 2012, when he was elected as party president. Muntu should be/ is a true ambassador for the FDC, he’s FDC’s true face, he represents what FDC stands for. For the record, Mugisha Muntu served FDC in an official capacity more than Dr. Kizza Besigye. For him to come around and suggest that he was “forced out” of the party points more to his character and style of leadership. Mugisha Muntu who was “forced out” of FDC managed to win the delegates’ vote to become party president but he could not “influence” the same party delegates when it came to what strategy the party should take? At the time Gen Muntu was party President, there were FDC MPs who had ceased remitting their monthly subscription to the party who, however, moved out of the party alongside with him. So, who was fighting who? At the formation of the TDA, FDC was the biggest opposition party, it was therefore, clear that when choosing who to be its flag bearer, FDC would be priority, Muntu had seceded this position peacefully to Amama Mbabazi. From 2011 up to 2016, FDC membership in parliament declined. This is the time Muntu was President.
It is disheartening that most of the FDC MPs are leaving with Muntu they have pegged their political careers to the person. I hope they have good judgment of character. Muntu is a prisoner of his dreams. My hope is that his would be followers aren’t held hostage because his dreams are far from the gruesome reality. A leader of a formidable Ugandan opposition political party and has never been teargassed or even pepper sprayed???? Yii-yii?