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By John Blanshe Musinguzi
27th October 2013
North, south,
east, west, home is the best. Indeed welcome home Rubaramira but why fire
another bullet in the defenseless camp of Uganda’s main opposition party.
Disunity in FDC is the major political talk these days.View blog
Mafabi camp
and Muntu camp are not at good terms. The later want to replace the former as
the leader of opposition in parliament ‘with Alaso’ who was accused of ‘voting
many’ times in 2012 presidential election. Why?, maybe he isn’t good at taking
orders from his new boss. Mafabi’s camp
has threatened to defect from FDC is their boss is dropped from his current
position in parliament.
Why should Mafabi
and Muntu behave like kids?. No wonder, they were recently forced into a one to
one meeting by senior party officials to discuss and iron out their
differences. This entire ‘anarchy’ emerged after last year’s FDC presidential
elections to replace Dr. Kizza Besigye who retired from politics.
As our main opposition
party, probably “our government in waiting.” FDC should now concentrate on
performing her functions such as holding the government accountable and
upholding peoples interest. Top leaders are fighting for their interests and
they have so far succeeded in dividing the party into two antagonistic camps
fighting each other.
Ceteris-paribus,
FDC’s main soon lose its status as Uganda’s
main opposition party and start fighting with UPC, DP, JEMA, UFA and many more
for which party will lead other opposition parties.
Gone are the
good days when FDC under Besigye used to give Museveni headache during election
campaigns. In 2006, FDC got 37% even after electoral irregularities while NRM
got 59%. In 2011, FDC got 26.01% while Museveni won with 68.38% even when
voters turn out was about 14 millions which were about 59% of the registered
voters. Things can even fall part more in 2016 as a divided opposition party
faces a divided ruling party.
Realistically
as FDC loses its political icons and supporters, NRM will be corrupting some of
them back into o the ruling party because it can afford to buy expensive car for
them and even offer tem fruitful jobs where they can embezzle public resources.
FDC’s major problem is what Charles
Onyango Obbo would phrase as “in the name of the Father (Besigye), the Son (………)
and the Holy Spirit (FDC). So without the son to mediate between the father and
the spirit, then disunity is still yet to grow in Najanankumbi.
Rubaramira and
the 400 FDC supporters from Rukungiri will not be the only one to leave FDC. Speculations
continue to ripe that former Leader of Opposition and Northern Region Vice
president Morris Ogenga Latigo and Kamuli LC 5 Chairman Salamu Musumba may soon
defect. Many more will part away if tops leaders can’t mend their relationship,
decide who to be the ‘adopted son’ and more importantly be royal to him.
Let all of
us pray for the survival of FDC, this should not be for only FDC supporters but
also haters from NRM for the good of our nation. A country without a vibrant, organized,
and sounding leading opposition party in a multi party dispensation would like
a toothless dog which can’t eat meat.
John Blanshe
Musinguzi is a Journalism and Communication Student at Makerere University
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