Something disastrous is happening in FDC that people will only understand much later COMMENT | SSEMANDA ALLAWI | For a decade plus, Dr. Col. Kizza Besigye has been attacking and accusing president Museveni of being a dictator and a selfish individual. He has accused him of failing and using NRM as a …
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Will new president Amuriat lead FDC forward or backwards to Besigye? Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | With the election of Engineer Patrick Oboi Amuriat as president of Uganda’s biggest opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) behind him, Grant Senabulya, a delegate from Nakaseke district who looks to be in his …
Read More »Muntu versus Amuriat
The battle that shouldn’t have been fought Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | “I bring to this race 25 solid years of political activism; I bring new energy that is currently lacking in the party. And I belong to the ideology of defiance.” With such words, former Kumi Municipality lawmaker, Patrick …
Read More »MUNTU: There was a considerable amount of distrust in me
Patrick Amuriat – 57.6% Mugisha Muntu – 41.7% Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rtd Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu has conceded defeat after Friday’s Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential election, but blamed distrust by many members for his failure to retain the top opposition party job. FDC Electoral Commission …
Read More »Patrick Oboi Amuriat is FDC President
FDC Provisional results Patrick Amuriat – 57.6% Mugisha Muntu – 41.7% Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Provisional results from Mandela Stadium indicate that the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) 7th National Delegates Conference has elected former Kumi Country MP Eng. Patrick Amuriat president. FDC Electoral Commission head Dan Mugarura …
Read More »UGANDA IN HISTORY: Is Besigye Going Up Or Down?
TODAY NOVEMBER 19, IN UGANDA HISTORY: FDC presidential candidate for life, Kizza Besigye, first declared his intention to run for president for the first time on October 28, 2000. On November 19, only three weeks later, ANDREW MWENDA wrote this article for The Monitor. Kampala, November 19, 2000 | Daily …
Read More »Museveni yet to respond to Kadaga
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni’s press secretary Don Wanyama has clarified that State House is yet to respond to the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga on the issue of the September 27 “invasion of the parliament precincts”. Wanyama said a related letter doing the rounds on social …
Read More »Besigye wants damages for breach of UBC contract
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Former FDC party presidential candidate Dr. Kiiza Besigye has finally testified against the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) for refusing to run his 2011 presidential campaign adverts. Besigye and his witness Dan Wandera Ogalo, an advocate of the High court, testified before Justice Magret Oguli-Oumo but …
Read More »Has Museveni become Uganda’s problem?
Experts reveal sectors suffering because of President Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Once celebrated at home and abroad as one of a new breed of African leaders, President Yoweri Museveni now finds himself the subject of intense criticism. Observers say he faces challenges created by lack of new …
Read More »Muntu explains rare unity against age limit bill
‘We are seeing MPs in traditionally Movement strongholds coming out to oppose this Bill, the momentum is unstoppable,’ he told The Independent Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | “The opposition is weak” is a refrain in Uganda’s political discourse. President Yoweri Museveni’s ability to thwart opposition protests, NRM’s super majority …
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