‘Langi toppled Obote’
Jun 09, 2005
FORMER president Milton Obote could still be in power if his own tribesmen did not betray him, a minister from Lango region has said.
By Denis Ocwich
and Walter Akwat
FORMER president Milton Obote could still be in power if his own tribesmen did not betray him, a minister from Lango region has said.
“Obote lost power because his own people were against him. We would be in power up to today,†said Felix Okot-Ogong, the state minister for youth and child affairs.
Obote, now exiled in Zambia, was the first post-independence Prime Minister from 1962 before he was overthrown in a military coup by Idi Amin in 1971. He bounced back after the 1980 elections, but was again deposed in 1985 by a military junta of Tito Okello.
Okot, who is also MP for Dokolo in Lira district, said this on Saturday at a party organised by Lango students at Makerere university and Makerere university Business School at Kyadondo Rugby Grounds.
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and Walter Akwat
FORMER president Milton Obote could still be in power if his own tribesmen did not betray him, a minister from Lango region has said.
“Obote lost power because his own people were against him. We would be in power up to today,†said Felix Okot-Ogong, the state minister for youth and child affairs.
Obote, now exiled in Zambia, was the first post-independence Prime Minister from 1962 before he was overthrown in a military coup by Idi Amin in 1971. He bounced back after the 1980 elections, but was again deposed in 1985 by a military junta of Tito Okello.
Okot, who is also MP for Dokolo in Lira district, said this on Saturday at a party organised by Lango students at Makerere university and Makerere university Business School at Kyadondo Rugby Grounds.
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