The Democratic party president Norbert Mao has decried the manner in while the Head of State Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has personalized every activity taking place in the country.
Speaking while appearing on NBS Frontline, Mao noted that commented the ruling party’s Chobe Safari Lodge retreat resolution that saw Museveni being endorsed as a sole candidate in the forthcoming 2021 general elections.
Mao says there is a difference between planning and plotting and what the National Resistance Movement Central Executive Council did was only are plotting.
“This is the highest level of sycophancy, I would be surprised if they hadn’t come up with the resolution of fronting Museveni as their 2021 candidate.” Moa said.
He revealed that as the Democratic Party and opposition at large, they are ready to compete, fight and oust him preferably even before 2021 however the challenge is that they playing against a person who has given himself the best cards, he also plays the football match with the whistle.
“He can blow and stop the game at anytime, he stopped the LC elections because he knew we would wallop him, he also plays with the red card, he pulls it against people like Amama Mbabazi. How can NRM have a shortlist of 1 person, that’s the shortest list ever.” Norbert Mao said.
Sole Candidature
It should be noted that the ruling party National Resistance Movement (NRM) supreme organ, Central Executive Committee (CEC) on Tuesday afternoon endorsed President Yoweri Museveni as the party’s sole candidate for the 2021 elections.
This means that Museveni who has been Uganda president since 1986 after shooting his way to power, will now contest for a sixth term in office. He will be 76 years old in 2021. He controversially won the last election with 60.75% of the votes with his closest rival Kizza Besigye getting 35%.
NRM senior information manager Rogers Mulindwa said in a statement that CEC has once again endorsed Museveni to run as the party’s sole candidate.
In the 2016 presidential elections, the party endorsed Museveni as the sole presidential candidate after Amama Mbabazi, the then party secretary general expressed interest in contesting against Museveni. Mbabazi was subsequently forced out the party.
“To emphatically recommend to the membership of the movement and its
organs that His Excellency Yoweri Museveni our leader and General of the
African Resistance, continues leading the Movement and the State in 2021 and
beyond- as we eliminate the bottlenecks to transformation,” reads part of
the statement.
Mulindwa notes that the party’s top organ also made several directives to government for urgent changes among, which are to expeditiously study the multiple requirements of operationalizing the parish model and proceed with implementation without delay. The model is envisaged to help transform 68 per cent households that are still involved in substance farming.
“The party directs the government to significantly recapitalize the Uganda Development Bank (UDB) in the new financial year, to enable the bank to play a more vigorous and central role in providing affordable credit for transformative effort,” further reads the statement.
Mulindwa says that the re-capitalization of UDB shall include relocating the Agricultural Credit Facility from Bank of Uganda to UDB. CEC also directed government to urgently revisit the legal and administrative regime for environmental conservation, as part of a fundamental push to roll back and mitigate the effects of climate change.
It also wants government to urgently revisit the reform of the land legal regime that they say creates unacceptable obstacles to national development. Meanwhile, CEC wants NRM to expeditiously ensure the instruction in patriotism straight from primary to universities and other tertiary institutions.
It also seeks to invest massively in the development, consolidation and dissemination of its ideological line as well as the systematic mentorship of its cadre-ship.
“NRM cadres should appreciate & internalize the need for appropriate strategy & tactics at every phase of the struggle for the fundamental socio-economic transformation of Uganda and Africa,” reads the statement.
