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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>One of the most riveting movies I have watched in recent times is \u2018Vice\u2019, the autobiographical film about Dick Cheney. It chronicles his life from serving as an intern in the white house and rising to the top as Chief of Staff, getting booted and returning in House of Representatives, leaving to serve as CEO of oil giant, Halliburton, and then becoming the most powerful vice president in the history of the United States.<\/p>\n

It is hard to think of anyone that shaped the world in the last 20 years, more than Cheney did \u2013 if you consider the alterations to international travel and security after 9\/11. It is funny if you watch the movie and read up on Cheney, and relate it to how the Vice President\u2019s job was reportedly once described as \u201cnot worth a bucket of warm spit,\u201d by John Nance Garner, who was president Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s deputy.<\/p>\n

So, is the vice presidency a nothing job or is there any meat to the bone? It\u2019s a complicated question because we are talking a position where you could come from being an idler to the most powerful person in the country. Consider that in just this week, one woman in Tanzania, made history when she ascended from it to the presidency \u2013 being the first ever in her country to; and yet in neighbouring Uganda, another woman has vehemently made it clear she will not accept the position \u2013 even if nobody knows for sure if it has even been offered.<\/p>\n

The problem with the vice presidency is that you don\u2019t want to waste your best soldier(s) in the position. So, you find someone who will attend birthday parties, burials and church fundraisers that you are unable to go to. The current placeholder is the perfect fit for the shadow president job, considering how he is a man more forgotten about than not. Age and political fortune have ensured that his odds to retain the job are anything but high, and he will be content enjoying his retirement package at Pope Paul Memorial.<\/p>\n

Having controlled a budget and had Members of Parliament groveling at her feet for favours, the current Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda, Rebecca Kadaga, has gone for broke. Never mind the fact that constitutionally, the vice presidency would put her a heartbeat away from actual power, were the office to be unceremoniously vacated.<\/p>\n

So, out of sheer impudence and need to hold on to power and the perks of office, she has created headaches for nearly every player looking at the political chessboard. First, is her current deputy, Jacob Oulanyah, who has been waiting in the wings for 10 years and now wants his turn on the levers. Having shown his hand, he will likely lose more in the long term, were he to back down at this moment. Next in the bind, is the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement. They have to decide whether to let the two protagonists go at each other \u2013 and risk a public fallout especially if Kadaga were to lose; or ask one of them to let it go in exchange for a position without power and budget; or even order them to stay put and risk a hung house with side-eyes and counter-schemes.<\/p>\n

Then, enter the women and gender activists. in trying to square this circle. They have spent the last couple of years \u2013 and make a living out of \u2013 railing against President Museveni\u2019s iron grip on power and Parliament\u2019s inability to pass progressive laws. Now, they have to go back on their agenda and try to square the circle, because they want Kadaga to stay, for the simple reason that she is a woman. Forget the contradiction of it, considering she has publicly chest thumped about her role in keeping Museveni in power; and has, for 10 years, presided over the circus across the National Theatre.<\/p>\n

Same for the opposition, all of whom won on the back of incumbency fatigue and reawakening from institutional capture and personalization, corruption, inefficacy, rights abuses and government excesses. What would their promised change be, if they voted for either of the two leading candidates? Conundrum.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there\u2019s just one office with actual power to improve livelihoods and the quality of life, bring dignity to the citizenry and mend the brokenness \u2013 but that\u2019s not what this fight is about!<\/p>\n

Mr Rukwengye is the founder, Boundless Minds. rukwengye86@gmail.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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