DP delegates summit to decide on alliance
Dec 15, 2009
THE decision on whether the Democratic Party (DP) should join the inter-party coalition will be taken by the party’s delegates conference, the party president, John Ssebaana Kizito, has said.
By Jude Kafuuma
THE decision on whether the Democratic Party (DP) should join the inter-party coalition will be taken by the party’s delegates conference, the party president, John Ssebaana Kizito, has said.
“DP has never been opposed to the coalition as many people think. We are only waiting to hold our delegates conference to introduce the idea to the owners of the party. If they accept, we shall sign the memorandum of understanding and become full members,†Ssebaana said while addressing journalists at the party headquarters yesterday.
Ssebaana said DP had over the years initiated many ventures involving inter-party coalitions, including the current one.
The parties that form the coalition are the Conservative Party (CP), Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), the Justice Forum (JEEMA), Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) and the recently-formed People’s Development Party (PDP).
One of the objectives of the parties is to front a single presidential candidate during the 2011 polls.
The parties have for the past two days been meeting at the Pope Paul VI Memorial Hotel in Ndeeba to discuss a joint strategy in order to defeat the NRM in the 2011 general elections.
“Once the delegates conference endorses the idea, we shall go ahead and follow the coalition programmes,†he added.
When asked to comment on the recent launch of a presidential manifesto by one of the party members, Norbert Mao, Ssebaana declined, saying the delegates’ conference would decide on DP’s leadership.
Commenting on the recent statement by President Yoweri Museveni that the opposition is failing the poverty alleviation programmes, Ssebaana said the money meant for the programmes ends up in the hands of NRM cadres, who look for their supporters to benefit from the programmes.
“We do not see any impact of these programmes despite the fact that it is the taxpayers’ money. It is used to benefit a few individuals,†he said.
The only thing we see, Ssebaana said, are small signposts of the National Agriculture Advisory Services standing near people’s gardens.
He advised the President to blame the NRM cadres and the administrators of the programmes for wrongly using taxpayers’ money.
“These so-called NRM cadres are incompetent, corrupt and cannot help this country out of poverty. The President should rethink about involving them in rural development programmes,†Ssebaana said.
THE decision on whether the Democratic Party (DP) should join the inter-party coalition will be taken by the party’s delegates conference, the party president, John Ssebaana Kizito, has said.
“DP has never been opposed to the coalition as many people think. We are only waiting to hold our delegates conference to introduce the idea to the owners of the party. If they accept, we shall sign the memorandum of understanding and become full members,†Ssebaana said while addressing journalists at the party headquarters yesterday.
Ssebaana said DP had over the years initiated many ventures involving inter-party coalitions, including the current one.
The parties that form the coalition are the Conservative Party (CP), Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), the Justice Forum (JEEMA), Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) and the recently-formed People’s Development Party (PDP).
One of the objectives of the parties is to front a single presidential candidate during the 2011 polls.
The parties have for the past two days been meeting at the Pope Paul VI Memorial Hotel in Ndeeba to discuss a joint strategy in order to defeat the NRM in the 2011 general elections.
“Once the delegates conference endorses the idea, we shall go ahead and follow the coalition programmes,†he added.
When asked to comment on the recent launch of a presidential manifesto by one of the party members, Norbert Mao, Ssebaana declined, saying the delegates’ conference would decide on DP’s leadership.
Commenting on the recent statement by President Yoweri Museveni that the opposition is failing the poverty alleviation programmes, Ssebaana said the money meant for the programmes ends up in the hands of NRM cadres, who look for their supporters to benefit from the programmes.
“We do not see any impact of these programmes despite the fact that it is the taxpayers’ money. It is used to benefit a few individuals,†he said.
The only thing we see, Ssebaana said, are small signposts of the National Agriculture Advisory Services standing near people’s gardens.
He advised the President to blame the NRM cadres and the administrators of the programmes for wrongly using taxpayers’ money.
“These so-called NRM cadres are incompetent, corrupt and cannot help this country out of poverty. The President should rethink about involving them in rural development programmes,†Ssebaana said.