FDC elects leaders in January
Dec 27, 2004
THE Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) elects its leaders in the third week of January.
By Jude Etyang
THE Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) elects its leaders in the third week of January.
The party’s defacto head, Col. Kizza Besigye, was yesterday named as eligible for the top leadership post as the party establishes structures after registration.
The party’s working committee chairman, Reagan Okumu, said the leaders would be elected at the national delegates conference due next month.
He said this at the party’s weekly press briefing at their headquarters in Kamwokya, Kampala.
Okumu said the leaders would be elected from active members in Uganda and abroad.
“Ugandans should not expect any miracles that FDC is not going to get it’s leaders from heaven. We have members here and abroad, Dr. Besigye in South Africa, Dr Mugula in Sweden, Anne Mugisa in America and many others to choose from,†Okumu said.
“We are not going to import new leadership, the people you have heard here and abroad will be part and parcel of the new leadership but we want to offer a team.â€
Okumu said Besigye who was recently acquitted of involvement in the junk helicopter scandal was not a criminal.
He said the party would not be dominated by individual but by institutional guidelines.
“No personality will have dominance over FDC. The problem we have had in this country since independence is that personalities have dominated institutions,†Okumu said.
He said the party had formed a team to monitor the Electoral Commission ahead of the 2006 polls.
Okumu said they had opened a human rights telephone hotline for the public to report cases of harassment by government agents.
He said the FDC policy programme was ready for distribution.
Okumu said the key issue in the policy programme was to streamline public expenditure by cutting down the public service.
“We shall not waste public expenditure by creating offices for our supporters,†said Okumu.
THE Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) elects its leaders in the third week of January.
The party’s defacto head, Col. Kizza Besigye, was yesterday named as eligible for the top leadership post as the party establishes structures after registration.
The party’s working committee chairman, Reagan Okumu, said the leaders would be elected at the national delegates conference due next month.
He said this at the party’s weekly press briefing at their headquarters in Kamwokya, Kampala.
Okumu said the leaders would be elected from active members in Uganda and abroad.
“Ugandans should not expect any miracles that FDC is not going to get it’s leaders from heaven. We have members here and abroad, Dr. Besigye in South Africa, Dr Mugula in Sweden, Anne Mugisa in America and many others to choose from,†Okumu said.
“We are not going to import new leadership, the people you have heard here and abroad will be part and parcel of the new leadership but we want to offer a team.â€
Okumu said Besigye who was recently acquitted of involvement in the junk helicopter scandal was not a criminal.
He said the party would not be dominated by individual but by institutional guidelines.
“No personality will have dominance over FDC. The problem we have had in this country since independence is that personalities have dominated institutions,†Okumu said.
He said the party had formed a team to monitor the Electoral Commission ahead of the 2006 polls.
Okumu said they had opened a human rights telephone hotline for the public to report cases of harassment by government agents.
He said the FDC policy programme was ready for distribution.
Okumu said the key issue in the policy programme was to streamline public expenditure by cutting down the public service.
“We shall not waste public expenditure by creating offices for our supporters,†said Okumu.