23/05/2021
I WILL RUN AS INDEPENDENT, Rt Hon Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga ASSURES CEC & BLAMES M7 BUSOGA DEFEAT ON POLICE, UPDF BRUTALITY
By Isaac Wandubile
With the ruling NRM CEC fronting Jacob Oulanyah as their candidate for Speakership, Kadaga will be vying on the independent ticket. This is what she assured CEC on Saturday afternoon when she appeared before it for interview. She accused Oulanyah of being insurbodinate and travelling too much. She also denied Oulanyah's claims that she failed to deliver the Busoga vote for Gen Museveni against Kyagulanyi. She told CEC Basoga voters rejected Gen Museveni because they were protesting the brutality of Police and the military whose personnel she said tortured and kidnapped their chidlren many of whom are still missing. Fearing the spliting of the party resulting from Kadaga coming as independent, some CEC members had suggested that Jacob Oboth-Oboth runs as the consensus candidate, something which the Kadaga camp had agreed to. Being rejected by NRM simply means Kadaga will now qualify for the NUP support which had been conditioned on her being rejected by both NRM and Gen Museveni who many NUP Politburo members passionately hate. There are widespread fears that Kadaga, who denies messing up Parliament wondering why Museveni didn't call her to order as her supervisor, could grant defiant media interviews and use that platform to spill some of the worst secrets of the ruling party. And Monday polling at Kololo is going to be extremely interesting to report news about and as Mulengera News, we can only predict that this entire ugly situation for the ruling party is going to worsen first before it gets better.
