Uganda Presidential candidates set same goal
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speak at a past event.
What you need to know:
Mr Mbabazi, the former prime minister and secretary general of the ruling NRM party, is contesting for the presidency as an independent candidate having fallen out with President Museveni, who subsequently sacked him as prime minister on September 18, last year.
Kanungu. The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye, has said he is working together with the Go Forward presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi towards a common target of removing President Museveni’s regime.
Mr Mbabazi, the former prime minister and secretary general of the ruling NRM party, is contesting for the presidency as an independent candidate having fallen out with President Museveni, who subsequently sacked him as prime minister on September 18, last year.
“We are in agreement to work for change and to put in place a pro-people and efficient government. We had little time to build the alliance, the time was not enough for us to build consensus. Some others were from NRM, and they said they were still there.
Some of us were totally opposed to the NRM system,” Dr Besigye told listeners on Thursday night during a talk-show on Kanungu Broadcasting Services (KBS) radio in Kanungu, the home district of Mr Mbabazi.
Dr Besigye was responding to a caller who said they were worried that he would betray them during the collapsed negotiations for a joint presidential candidate under The Democratic Alliance (TDA).
“But what we all (opposition and Mbabazi group) want is to see that what is there (current government) goes.
Our energy and focus now is to ensure that the current system goes. What will succeed it is not yet clear. We shall continue to work together so that what is there goes, and after that we will work out what to put in the place,” Dr Besigye stated.(NMG)
