Rukiga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Medard Ensinikweri, the incumbent opposition Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party chairperson for Rukiga district has defected to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party. Ensinikweri handed over the FDC party card and t-shirt to Twaha Selubowa Yalyakumanyi, Rukiga district NRM party returning officer on …
Read More »IPOD drafting new MoU for political parties
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue-IPOD is in the process of drafting a new Memorandum of Understanding-MoU that binds all political parties with representation in Parliament. Four political parties namely the Democratic Party-DP, Forum for Democratic Change-FDC, National Resistance Movement-NRM and Uganda People’s Congress-UPC signed …
Read More »Challenges of Ugandan political parties
The internal party deficiencies and external, legal,constitutional framework they should address to be effective COMMENT | DEUS MUKALAZI MUBIRU | In Uganda, multi-party democracy was opened up after over two decades of ban. This move towards pluralism was a first step towards a competitive party system in Uganda. Today, a …
Read More »‘NUP did not consult FDC before naming Shadow Cabinet’
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party has said it was never consulted when the National Unity Platform-NUP was naming some of its Members of Parliament ministers in the shadow cabinet. Speaking to Uganda Radio Network, FDC Spokesperson Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda who also doubles as …
Read More »Museveni new cabinet sparks ability questions
But opposition says new Vice President, Prime Minister deserve chance Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Katakwi and Kakumiro; two districts from where Uganda’s Vice President and Prime Minister have emerged and where the re-alignment of Uganda’s cabinet has been centered. President Yoweri Museveni rewarded the Teso sub-region which resoundingly …
Read More »FDC to replace Ssebugwawo as deputy party president
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party is to replace Joyce Nabbosa Ssebugwawo as deputy president for the Buganda region. This follows Tuesday announcement that she had been appointed as State Minister for ICT and National Guidance. In a statement posted on the party’s Facebook timeline, …
Read More »Former Soroti Municipality MP Herbert Edmund Ariko joins NRM
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The former Soroti Municipality MP, Herbert Edmund Ariko has officially joined the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party, four months after losing an MP seat to FDC’s Moses Attan Okia. Ariko who unsuccessfully contested for the Soroti City East MP seat as an independent, joined parliament in …
Read More »Can the Opposition unite after the acrimonious speaker election?
Ssemujju says that there are many people within the opposition who are only there just in name but in spirit they belong to the ruling NRM Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In 2011, Nathan Nandala Mafabi, the MP for Budadiri West and also a member of the Forum for Democratic Change …
Read More »Amuriat asks FDC supporters to boycott Museveni’s swearing-in ceremony
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The President of the Forum for Democratic Change party-FDC Eng. Patrick Oboi Amuriat has asked party supporters to boycott next week’s swearing-in ceremony of President Yoweri Museveni. Amuriat also said that the day shouldn’t be recognized as a public holiday but any other day for Ugandans. …
Read More »Inside Kadaga, Oulanyah race for Speaker
Museveni, CEC, ethnicity feature in second face off Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | The second battle for the Speakership of Parliament between Rebecca Kadaga and Jacob Oulanyah threatens to be more bruising than the first in 2016. Speaker Kadaga and her deputy Oulanyah are wooing a House that has …
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