Tag Archives: FDC

THIS WEEK: 60 FDC leaders quit FDC for Muntu’s group Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) is dealing with another defection after 60 district leaders announced they had quit the party to join Mugisha Muntu’s New Formation at an event held in Mbarara. The leaders led …

Just how far can the former FDC leader go with his ‘New Formation’? Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | “They have gone finally!” Brian Atuheire Batenda, a member of the defiance team posted on Facebook immediately a statement came out on Sept. 25 announcing the exit of Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu, …

The mistakes of FDC, NRM Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | Arua Municipality MP Kasiano Wadri appeared assured of victory from the start. “I have already won this election,” he told The Independent a week into the official threeweeks of campaigning, “I will just need to do a little panel beating …

New Leader of Opposition in parliament looks to biblical David for inspiration as daunting task dawns on her Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Betty Aol Ocan, the new Leader of Opposition in Uganda’s 10th Parliament says her Christian values of honesty, truthfulness, hard work and loyalty will help rally her …

Supporters say he kept FDC together, now they want him to exit and lead a new political organ. Will he? Kampala, Uganda | AGATHER ATUHAIRE | Supporters of opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party stalwart, Mugisha Muntu, recently held their last lap of consultations in Busoga region and finalised with …

  Why liberal minded Ugandans should celebrate the breakup of FDC and rally behind its enlightened leaders THE LAST WORD | ANDREW MWENDA | The inevitable is happening. Uganda’s largest opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), is breaking up. Twenty two out of its 36 Members of Parliament (MPs) …

FDC changes in parliament spark fury with in Muntu’s camp Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME & FLAVIA NASSAKA | Of all the reasons Patrick Oboi Amuriat, the president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), has given to explain the changes he has made with the opposition leadership in parliament, one is …

As NRM takes Kotido, Ibanda, Sheema, Nebbi Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Asuman Basalirwa, the MP-elect for Bugiri Municipality, confesses that people had always addressed him as a Member of Parliament before the just concluded election that sent him to the August House for the first time. During a television …

When is a candidate by another name not the same candidate? Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The people of Pallisa District were scheduled to go to the polls on June 28 to elect their Woman MP. But the Electoral Commission quashed it when it annulled the FDC candidate, Catherine Achola …

Rukungiri, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three candidates have been nominated to contest in the Rukungiri district Woman Member of Parliament seat by-election. They are Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party flag bearer, Betty Bamukwasa Muzanira, Sheila Atukunda Kirebete and Prisca Sezi Mbaguta both independents. Atukunda was the first candidate to …