Besigye accuses FDC leaders of surrendering to ruling party
May 03, 2024
“FDC wanted to cause change that has never been caused since Uganda became a country,” Besigye said.
Besigye, Musumba and Opoka in the studio of Voice of Lango FM in Lira City on Friday Morning. (Photo by Joseph Ekol)
Joseph Ekol
Journalist @New Vision
___________________ Besigye and the team at the Stdio of Radio Voice of Lango on Friday morning.
Former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Dr. Col. (rtd) Kizza Besigye has accused the party's top leaders of surrendering to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government.
Besigye has fought to remove NRM from power for 20 years.
The former Uganda presidential candidate, who is on his consultative tour in Lango region, made the accusations on a Lira city-based FM radio station on Friday, May 3, 2024.
He said the FDC party has for the last 20 years had several issues that they have managed to resolve but the current party leadership under Patrick Amuriat Oboi has allegedly failed to do so.
“FDC wanted to cause change that has never been caused since Uganda became a country,” Besigye said.
He added that the problem of FDC came up when people who were fighting to remove President Museveni got exhausted and some lost their resources and became broke hence many surrendered to work with the ruling party which they were fighting to remove.
Besigye said he did not campaign for Amuriat Oboi for the presidency in 2021 because the entire leadership of the party had already made up their minds to ally with the ruling party, something he advised them not to do but they insisted.
Besigye explained that, towards the 2021 general election, the party leaders approached him and told him some problems required them to tactfully ally with President Museveni, which he refused to agree with, something that led to confusion in the party because the top leaders had already made up their minds.
However, it should be noted that FDC has vehemently always dismissed allegations of being compromised by NRM.
Besigye was accompanied on the radio by MP Francis Mwijukye, Harold Kaija, Salaam Musumba, Dr Okello Ekwaro, and other local leaders of the FDC party from the northern region who believed in his faction.
Francis Mwijukye said there is already a challenge in the FDC, which needs to be addressed.
He said their decision to leave Najjanankumbi and form the Katonda faction was to take over power from President Museveni.
“We are now at Katonga just a few metres away from the State House [Nakasero]. Every time we see Museveni pass, we hope we will remove him from the State House,” Mwijukye.
Salaam Musumba, said their tour of Lango is aimed at reminding the FDC historical supporters and leaders in the region of the struggles they went through to start the party.
She challenged the people about the quality of legislators saying since the death of Cecilia Ogwal, the voice of the people of Lango has disappeared from the national space adding that their faction is still looking for a voice that can speak not only issues of Lango but the national issues at parliament.
Musumba rallied all the retired UPDF officers at the rank of a colonel who are in Lango to join Dr Besigye in the fight to remove the regime.
Bonny Ogongson, the people’s governor in charge of Lango, said Besigye is the only leader who doesn't think of what benefits him alone but the public.
Background to the FDC crisis
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