Losing power a mistake â€" Miria
Feb 13, 2006
CAMPAIGNS are synonymous with hooliganism, but Mukono Taxi Park was on Sunday filled with emotion as Miria Kalule Obote, the UPC presidential candidate, made a 30-minute emotional appeal for votes,
CAMPAIGNS are synonymous with hooliganism, but Mukono Taxi Park was on Sunday filled with emotion as Miria Kalule Obote, the UPC presidential candidate, made a 30-minute emotional appeal for votes, reports Joel Ogwang.
Miria, who nearly sobbed, told the crowd that it was a mistake for her husband, the late Apollo Milton Obote, to lose power in his two governments.
Narrating the plight of the people in the north, Miria said the 20-year-long Kony insurgency had made people lose hope in life. “Ugandans were wealthy during our (UPC) two terms. Losing power was a mistake that will not happen again,†she said.
Having led Uganda to independence in 1962, Obote emerged the first prime minister and later president, but lost power to the late Iddi Amin in the 1971 coup and to Okello Lutwa in 1985.
Miria, who nearly sobbed, told the crowd that it was a mistake for her husband, the late Apollo Milton Obote, to lose power in his two governments.
Narrating the plight of the people in the north, Miria said the 20-year-long Kony insurgency had made people lose hope in life. “Ugandans were wealthy during our (UPC) two terms. Losing power was a mistake that will not happen again,†she said.
Having led Uganda to independence in 1962, Obote emerged the first prime minister and later president, but lost power to the late Iddi Amin in the 1971 coup and to Okello Lutwa in 1985.