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Crossfire: Mao, Mbidde clash over DP, Speakership race
On Mao’s statement that many of his cards are facing down and nobody knows them, Mbidde said: “The overall implication is that for him he’s just playing, but matters to do with the speakership are not games where you are now having what you call cards, that some are facing up, some are facing downwards. These are real issues to do with livelihoods and running a manifesto that has won the aspirations of the people.”
Speaker Anita Among (left) with DP’s Mbidde at her residence in Nakasero, Kampala, on March 5. The DP vice-president and Mao have presented different views on how the NRM-DP co-operation pact will play out in the 12th parliament.
By: Umar Kashaka, Journalists @New Vision
KAMPALA - Democratic Party (DP) president Norbert Mao and his deputy Fred Mukasa Mbidde have locked horns over the party direction. At the centre of this split is