FDC calls for ties with UPC
Oct 14, 2007
The opposition shadow finance minister, Nathan Nandala Mafabi, has appealed to the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) to team up with the Forum for Democratic Change to defeat the ruling NRM party in the next elections due in 2011.
By Nathan Etengu and Geresom Musamali
in Mbale
The opposition shadow finance minister, Nathan Nandala Mafabi, has appealed to the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) to team up with the Forum for Democratic Change to defeat the ruling NRM party in the next elections due in 2011.
“Either you join us (FDC) or we join you so that we push NRM out of office,†Nandala, the Budadiri West MP, said on Saturday.
He was speaking during a thanks-giving service in memory of former president and founder of UPC, Dr. Apollo Milton Obote.
The function took place at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Mbale.
The Rev. Samwiri Masaaba, the St. Andrew’s vicar, requested Mbale Municipality to rename the main street after Obote.
Republic Street, which runs from the Clock Tower to the senior quarters, is the main street.
The post office, the Police station and major banks are located on that street, which was Obote Avenue before UPC fell in 1985.
Kutosi promised to use his influence to get the street renamed after Obote.
UPC president Miria Obote asserted that prominent women in the NRM were direct beneficiaries of her party’s programme and outlined what she called the party’s past achievements in health, education and economic prosperity.
As the service went on, Miria inter-locked her arms with those of her sons Jimmy Akena and Ben Opeto, closed their eyes and wiped away tears.
“He lived according to Godly principles which made him never to discriminate on either religious or ethnic grounds,†she said.
Her husband, she added, was a strong believer in democratic principles and respect of the rule of law.
She, however, said Uganda’s support for the liberation of southern Africa and the dismantling of apartheid became a borne of contention between Uganda and the western powers, which resulted in his overthrow in 1971.
Present at the service were NRM officials Bernard Mujaasi (Mbale LC5 chairman), Jerome Mayanza (NRM district chairman) and Abdallah Kutosi (Mbale Municipal Council speaker), the party secretary general, Livingstone Okello-Okello.
in Mbale
The opposition shadow finance minister, Nathan Nandala Mafabi, has appealed to the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) to team up with the Forum for Democratic Change to defeat the ruling NRM party in the next elections due in 2011.
“Either you join us (FDC) or we join you so that we push NRM out of office,†Nandala, the Budadiri West MP, said on Saturday.
He was speaking during a thanks-giving service in memory of former president and founder of UPC, Dr. Apollo Milton Obote.
The function took place at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Mbale.
The Rev. Samwiri Masaaba, the St. Andrew’s vicar, requested Mbale Municipality to rename the main street after Obote.
Republic Street, which runs from the Clock Tower to the senior quarters, is the main street.
The post office, the Police station and major banks are located on that street, which was Obote Avenue before UPC fell in 1985.
Kutosi promised to use his influence to get the street renamed after Obote.
UPC president Miria Obote asserted that prominent women in the NRM were direct beneficiaries of her party’s programme and outlined what she called the party’s past achievements in health, education and economic prosperity.
As the service went on, Miria inter-locked her arms with those of her sons Jimmy Akena and Ben Opeto, closed their eyes and wiped away tears.
“He lived according to Godly principles which made him never to discriminate on either religious or ethnic grounds,†she said.
Her husband, she added, was a strong believer in democratic principles and respect of the rule of law.
She, however, said Uganda’s support for the liberation of southern Africa and the dismantling of apartheid became a borne of contention between Uganda and the western powers, which resulted in his overthrow in 1971.
Present at the service were NRM officials Bernard Mujaasi (Mbale LC5 chairman), Jerome Mayanza (NRM district chairman) and Abdallah Kutosi (Mbale Municipal Council speaker), the party secretary general, Livingstone Okello-Okello.