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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>When Forum Democratic Change (FDC) was being formed in 2005, its founders\u2019 main objective, they said, was to take back Uganda to \u201ca democratic path\u201d and the only way that could happen was by quickly bringing to an end President Museveni\u2019s hold on power.<\/p>\n

Sixteen years later, there is a sense of disappointment within the party. The first limb of disenchantment that FDC is dealing with is that Mr Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) have somehow further entrenched themselves in power having controversially won the January 14 election.<\/p>\n

The second limb is that having been the biggest Opposition party since multiparty politics resumed in 2005, the party lost that position to the months-old National Unity Platform (NUP) led by singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine.<\/p>\n

After Mr Museveni\u2019s 2016 victory, which FDC\u2019s then presidential candidate Kizza Besigye disputed, it was the party that gave the Opposition a way forward by pursuing what it termed as the \u201cdefiance campaign,\u201d but following the emergence of NUP, FDC has been playing second fiddle, leaving Mr Kyagulanyi to set the Opposition agenda.<\/p>\n

When Mr Kyagulanyi decided to challenge Mr Museveni\u2019s victory at the Supreme Court, FDC was clear: This was a wrong move.\u201cThese matters involve people\u2019s lives,\u201d FDC spokesperson Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, who is seen as a new leader within the party as it tries to rebrand, said when Mr Kyagulanyi decided to withdraw his petition in February, accusing the Supreme Court of being \u201cbiased.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou must be very clear when making a decision. So they went to court to seek justice and now they are saying it\u2019s not there. We told them not to go to court because they will come to the same conclusion FDC made that you can\u2019t take Museveni to court today in Uganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though he tried to be diplomatic, Dr Besigye, who had unsuccessfully challenged Mr Museveni\u2019s victory at the Supreme Court, couldn\u2019t help but gloat when Mr Kyagulanyi withdrew the petition before a hearing could take place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hesitate very much to say, \u2018I told you so\u2019,\u201d Dr Besigye told NBS TV in February. \u201cBecause it is like you are rubbing it in someone\u2019s wound. Regrettably, the fact is we make ourselves blind to the obvious reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time FDC is trying to distinguish itself from NUP after the general election.<\/p>\n

While NUP willingly met with European Union (EU) representatives in February to discuss the way forward after the elections, FDC decided not to meet the EU delegation headed by Attilio Pacifici, accusing them of being Mr Museveni enablers since the meetings they have held previously haven\u2019t led to anything substantive.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a party, we want to chase things where we expect to see results. We don\u2019t want meetings were we talk and nothing happens,\u201d Mr Harold Kaija, FDC\u2019s deputy secretary general, explained their reluctance in meeting the EU representatives. As the party tries to distinguish itself from NUP, it\u2019s also trying to strike a delicate balance between trying to maintain its identity, but also working with other Opposition parties and refocus on how they can uproot Mr Museveni from power.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no need for fighting,\u201d Prof Sabiti Makara, a lecturer at Makerere University\u2019s Department of Political Science, explains. \u201cThe main objective should be to defeat the NRM and that means NUP and FDC have to work together. They only way they can achieve success is by working together. They should put their egos aside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof Makara insists that Opposition parties in Uganda should borrow a leaf from those in Kenya who have kept on forming coalitions depending on their interest at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Kenya, it\u2019s not just about a political party,\u201d Prof Sabiti says. \u201cIt\u2019s about trying to take over the government. As long as that\u2019s the main interest, why don\u2019t they cooperate?\u201dThough cooperation is ideal, the fact that Mr Museveni in his previous speeches hasn\u2019t mentioned FDC or Dr Besigye speaks volumes of who he fears most of recent.<\/p>\n

On March 14, Mr Museveni used his address in which he claimed that he was tackling issues of \u201cnational interest\u201d to accuse, without evidence, NUP of rigging the elections, more so in Buganda where it obliterated his NRM.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody in Uganda knows who cheated; it was Kyagulanyi\u2019s group. It was ballot-stuffing, massive rigging in other parts of the country led by the [NUP] youth organisations,\u201d Mr Museveni said, naming electoral misdeeds that according to him were detected in Kampala, Wakiso, Kyotera and other districts in central Uganda.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t comment because there was a case in court which had been taken there by Honorable Kyagulanyi, saying NRM had cheated them. On the contrary, it was Kyagulanyi\u2019s group that cheated massively. There was massive ballot stuffing here in Kampala and in other parts of the country where we (NRM) had a weak organisation,\u201d the President added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was burning of houses, cars and cutting down of plantations in some areas. All this is documented. However, despite the massive cheating, NRM won, because it is a massive party. It is just like an elephant. All those who were intimidating just injured the ear of the elephant but it is still standing and in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though there is a belief that FDC is envious of NUP taking over as the leaders of the Opposition, which means Mr Kyagulanyi as NUP\u2019s principal would be the one to choose the next Leader of Opposition in Parliament, FDC has dismissed the whole notion.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs FDC, we never set out to just be the leaders of the Opposition,\u201d Mr Ssemujju, who is the outgoing Opposition Chief Whip, says. \u201cOur main objective has always been to take over power, not to lead the Opposition. Maybe others are obsessed with leading the Opposition, but we aren\u2019t. We have never discussed in our meetings how to be the biggest Opposition party, we want power. That\u2019s the only way we can implement our agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

But still, Mr Ssemujju doesn\u2019t rule out working with NUP at some stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, we are going to look at FDC internally,\u201d Mr Ssemujju says. \u201cThen we shall look at how we can work with NUP later. We have no problem with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going forward, the party has to make good on some of its promises of doing a forensic analysis of its performance of the just-concluded elections in which they got 33 parliamentary seats while NUP got about 61.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking at the whole picture; how we performed. The reason as to why we performed badly in certain areas. Can we continue pursuing elections as a way of bringing about change? We are also looking at how we shall manage the by-elections,\u201d says Mr Ssemujju, who easily retained his Kira Municipality seat, thus becoming the only incumbent FDC legislator in Buganda to retain his seat.<\/p>\n

The first meeting of that kind was held in the eastern district of Bugiri, but sources within the party say they have decided to do other meetings covertly and they have so far visited districts such as Kampala, Soroti, Adjumani, Gulu, Mbarara, Kabale and Kitgum.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been trying to resolve conflicts that arose before and during elections,\u201d a source privy to the meetings said. \u201cWe also want our members to be focused on the struggle. They shouldn\u2019t be demoralised because the party didn\u2019t perform as we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the party seeks to resolve conflicts that arose as a result of the elections, one particular conflict that won\u2019t to be easy to resolve is one involving Ms Ingrid Turinawe, the party\u2019s secretary for mobilisation.<\/p>\n

Ms Turinawe was among the FDC party members who forfeited their membership after they decided to stand as Independents when they lost the party primaries.<\/p>\n

Mr Nathan Nandala Mafabi, the party\u2019s secretary general, put them on notice last year during campaigns. FDC didn\u2019t do well in Turinawe\u2019s home district of Rukungiri.<\/p>\n

The party honchos, having failed to defend three seats and instead got just one, are blaming Ms Turinawe, who lost her bid to become the Rukungiri Municipality MP, for this abysmal performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe cost us a seat in Parliament and as things stand, now she is a party member of the FDC and there no reconciliation talks,\u201d a source close to party president Patrick Oboi Amuriat revealed on condition of anonymity. When contacted by this writer, Ms Turinawe had a different narrative. \u201cThere are ongoing talks within the party leadership. I wouldn\u2019t like to disclose them now because it\u2019s not yet time. You will get to know when time comes,\u201d Ms Turinawe says.<\/p>\n

Mr Roland Mugume Kaginda, the outgoing Rukungiri Municipality MP, who unlike Turinawe, didn\u2019t stand as an Independent having lost the primaries, also said he has no clue about the talks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe aren\u2019t yet there yet,\u201d Mr Kaginda, who was part of Mr Amuriat\u2019s campaign team, said. \u201cMaybe the talks will happen because we need to get a reason why we performed badly in Rukungiri.\u201d<\/p>\n

FDC swept seats in Soroti District, but there is a big possibility that there will be by-elections in Soroti City following a court ruling in which the city\u2019s boundaries were re-drawn.<\/p>\n

For FDC, a lot is at stake since the party won the city\u2018s maiden mayoral seat, the city woman MP seat and Soroti City East seat, won by Moses Attan who defeated Herbert Edmund Ariko, the incumbent who acrimoniously quit FDC, hobnobbed with Gen Mugisha Muntu\u2019s Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), but ultimately stood as an Independent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been working hard to see that we cement FDC in Soroti,\u201d Ms Anna Adeke Ebaju, who easily won the Soroti Woman MP seat, said in a recent interview. \u201cIn case of any by-election, we shall win it. That\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the healing process, the party, sources says, has reconciled with Jonathan Ebwalu who won the Soroti West seat as an Independent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe held talks with him and he agreed to work with FDC since that\u2019s what the people who voted for him want,\u201d a source that was party to the talks says.<\/p>\n

When these meetings are done, the party has explained that a report detailing what happened in each of the districts will be compiled and presented to the national executive committee (NEC) and national council for processing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe report and the subsequent discussion will form the basis for the next FDC internal elections scheduled for mid this year. As you are aware, the term of office for the current FDC leadership expired in July last year, but because of Covid-19 restrictions, FDC was unable to hold internal elections.\u201d a statement released by the party recently says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese elections are now planned for around June\/July this year. The grassroots elections will be concluded by a national delegates\u2019 conference towards the end of the year at which the new FDC leaders will be elected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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