Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has clashed with the Butambala County MP and the chairperson of Buganda Parliamentary caucus, Muwanga Kivumbi, over Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine and his party.

In the January 14 elections, FDC lost its 15-year position as the second-largest party in Parliament after the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) to the National Unity Platform (NUP) led by Kyagulanyi.

However, FDC, led by its president Eng. Patrick Amuriat, argues that NUP doesn’t have to lead any struggle against President Yoweri Museveni if they don’t wish, are not prepared, or have no capacity to.

But Kivumbi, who belongs to NUP, wants other Opposition figures, including those of FDC, to realize that Kyagulanyi is a force to reckon with.

Kyagulanyi, who was holding the flag for the NUP, gained 34.83% to President Yoweri Museveni’s 58.64% in the vote.

And Amuriat, who was FDC presidential candidate, came a distant third with 3.2% of the vote.

“Like it or not, in the politics of Uganda, there is People Power, NUP and Bobi Wine. If you don't want a contradiction, you must move with him,” Kivumbi contended on October 14 on one of the local television stations.

However, his comment on a talk show did not go down well with the FDC, which in a tweet, retorted, “What if they aren't ready to move? This political assumption must stop if we are to end the NRM military regime as the oppressed.”

FDC former president Dr Kizza Besigye formed a new coalition with some opposition figures on October 7 which is aimed at removing President Museveni from power.

The coalition, which Besigye now leads, includes Amuriat, Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, Conservative Party president John Ken Lukyamuzi and constitutional lawyer Peter Walubiri, who leads a splinter faction of Uganda People’s Congress.

Other coalition members are leaders of the Justice Forum, People's Progressive Party and a faction from Democratic Party (DP) led by former independent presidential candidate Samuel Mukaaku.

The coalition was named “People’s Front for Transition" under the slogan, Twetaase. It was launched at JEEMA’s offices in Kampala. Twetaase, when loosely translated, means, “Let’s save ourselves”.

However, NUP declined to join this entity, saying they already have enough entities.

“We have our People Power movement which even now has a party called NUP, so we don’t have to join another entity, but we have no problem working with any other entity new or otherwise. So we shall collaborate with them as long as their intention is the same as ours which is to cause regime change in our country,” the NUP spokesman and Nakawa West MP, Joel Ssenyonyi, told New Vision on October 8.