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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Lessons for NUP from the failure and disintegration of FDC THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | With former presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine opting out of court and going to the “court of public opinion” (i.e. street protest), the stage is now set for increasing …
Read More »Rujumbura runner-up wants Jim Muhwezi’s win annulled
Rukungiri, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fred Turyamuhweza Tumuheirwe, the opposition Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party candidate who lost the 2021 Rujumbura County member of parliament election in Rukungiri district has today petitioned court for the nullification of Jim Katugugu Muhwezi’s win. Katugugu who was the National Resistance Movement -NRM party …
Read More »How opposition disunity awarded NRM 20 MP seats
NUP spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi says some losses were self-inflicted, adding that the lesson they learn as forces of change is to strive and not only unite at the lower levels but also at the presidency Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | After agreeing in principle to fight the 2021 general election …
Read More »Unknown assailants kill Lyantonde town council FDC mobiliser
Lyantonde, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unidentified assailants have killed the Lyantonde town council Forum for Democratic Change-FDC mobiliser Emmanuel Atuhaire. His lifeless body was found lying in a pool of blood along the road in Mwere Nyakinengo in Biharwe Mbarara city on Saturday evening. Kahiigwa Nafuka, Mwere cell LC I …
Read More »What next for FDC after loss to NRM, NUP in 2021 general election?
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change-FDC went into the 2021 general elections as the largest opposition party in the country. But when the final whistle was blown, the verdict had been different, not only had it lost to the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM but also to …
Read More »Why Museveni should engage FDC, DP, Jeema and co
They represent true Ugandan interests and are equally sidelined by the ‘generational’ new Uganda forces | COMMENT | SWAIB K NSEREKO | Like the ruling National Resistance Movement, Opposition parties including FDC, DP, JEEMA and others are nursing political wounds sustained from recent electoral losses to the newest comer, the …
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