TDA calls for crisis meeting

By Nicholas Wassajja

The leadership of The Democratic Alliance (TDA) has summoned its summit for a meeting to deal with the uncoordinated events that have unfolded since last week when they failed to reach consensus on a joint presidential candidate.

The meeting that will sIt today (Tuesday)at TDA head offices in Naguru-Kampala will among others discuss the possibility of a ceasefire between pro-change presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi's Go Forward  camp and Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) flag bearer Kiiza Besigye.

The meeting that will start 10am will also forge a way forward on how to work together after failing on their main goal of having a joint candidate, reaching consensus on whether to field joint candidates at parliamentary and local council level and how to continue pushing for free and fair elections before the 2016 poll.

The summit is composed of member party presidents, secretary generals, youth representatives, leaders of pressure groups, two other representatives of each pressure group, a party flag bearer where applicable, alliance eminent persons and top officials of TDA secretariat.

TDA is a coalition of several opposition political parties and pressure groups seeking to wrest power from the ruling NRM at presidential and other elective positions across the country.

The TDA membership has the Democratic Party, FDC, Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), Conservative Party (CP), JEEMA, Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), Uganda Federal Alliance (UFA), Pressure for National Unity (PNU) and Go-forward Pro-change pressure group.   

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