Kyagulanyi mobilised against me for a month — Mpuuga

KAMPALA - The Democratic Alliance pressure group leader, Mathias Mpuuga, has said National Unity Platform (NUP) party president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine mobilised against him for a month in his Nyendo-Mukungwe Division constituency.

“Honourable Kyagulanyi, all due respect to him, mobilised people for a month to go to my constituency to speak ill about me. I have never seen him mobilise and hold a rally to speak against the Electoral Commission,” he said on Wednesday (March 19).

He made the remarks in an interview with one of the TV stations in Kampala.

“I have constrained myself a lot. If I spoke about certain things and individuals, you would be shocked. You would not know, for example, how NUP [leaders] would call MPs, one by one to educate them on how Mpuuga is a bad man,” Mpuuga said.

He also said Kyagulanyi made him “a subject of concert” and held “press conferences about me”.

“When there were attempts to censure me in Parliament, some friends of mine came to tell me that they knew I didn’t do any wrong but the man (Kyagulanyi) told them that it’s their only chance at a ticket,” Mpuuga, who is also a parliamentary commissioner, stated.

Some NUP MPs such as Joyce Bagala (Mityana Woman) and Medard Sseggona (Busiro East) found themselves ensnared in the political rivalry between Kyagulanyi and Mpuuga.

The burial of Kawempe North MP Muhammad Ssegirinya in January this year brought to the fore the underlying tensions between the two figures as they organised two parallel events in Butale village, Masaka city, to send him off.

This highlighted the bitter rivalry between them and looking ahead, analysts said, it is highly probable that this rivalry will intensify in the run-up to the 2026 general election.