New party backs ‘third term’
Dec 29, 2003
A New organisation, the National Peoples Organisation (NPO), has submitted a request for registration as a political party to the Registrar General.
By Cyprian Musoke
A New organisation, the National Peoples Organisation (NPO), has submitted a request for registration as a political party to the Registrar General.
According to its interim executive chairman, Abdul Rahman Jjagwe, the party has finished collecting the mandatory 50 signatures from 20 districts, as a requirement for registration.
He said the party would have no problem entrenching the idea of a third term for President Yoweri Museveni, as long as he was still relevant.
“If Museveni’s stay in power was beneficial, we would have no problem. He is like a doctor who has taken his time in attending to the sickly Uganda he inherited,†he said.
“We the promoters of the National Peoples Organisation (NPO) hereby declare to the general public that we have applied for registration of the party as a political organisation with the Registrar General,†Jjagwe said when he visited The New Vision.
He lauded the Movement for creating an enabling environment for them to enjoy freedom of association and expression, which had enabled them to come out.
“NPO is therefore set to bolster the present achievements, and also bring in new ideas that embrace the demands of other sections of Ugandans whose views have not been encompassed in the present government,†he said.
Asked why he did not choose to join any one of the present parties, he said he was sceptical of the old parties, as their origins were dubious.
He accused them of creating animosity and politics of intrigue in Uganda’s history.
“They concealed politics from us the ordinary folk, kept us in darkness, and divided and ruled,†he said.
A New organisation, the National Peoples Organisation (NPO), has submitted a request for registration as a political party to the Registrar General.
According to its interim executive chairman, Abdul Rahman Jjagwe, the party has finished collecting the mandatory 50 signatures from 20 districts, as a requirement for registration.
He said the party would have no problem entrenching the idea of a third term for President Yoweri Museveni, as long as he was still relevant.
“If Museveni’s stay in power was beneficial, we would have no problem. He is like a doctor who has taken his time in attending to the sickly Uganda he inherited,†he said.
“We the promoters of the National Peoples Organisation (NPO) hereby declare to the general public that we have applied for registration of the party as a political organisation with the Registrar General,†Jjagwe said when he visited The New Vision.
He lauded the Movement for creating an enabling environment for them to enjoy freedom of association and expression, which had enabled them to come out.
“NPO is therefore set to bolster the present achievements, and also bring in new ideas that embrace the demands of other sections of Ugandans whose views have not been encompassed in the present government,†he said.
Asked why he did not choose to join any one of the present parties, he said he was sceptical of the old parties, as their origins were dubious.
He accused them of creating animosity and politics of intrigue in Uganda’s history.
“They concealed politics from us the ordinary folk, kept us in darkness, and divided and ruled,†he said.