UPC warns FDC over talk
Mar 24, 2009
THE Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) has warned the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) against criticising the party. Welcoming the Lira municipality mayor, Peter Owiny and 20 councillors to the party at Coronation Park in Lira district on Saturday, UPC to
By Patrick Okino
THE Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) has warned the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) against criticising the party. Welcoming the Lira municipality mayor, Peter Owiny and 20 councillors to the party at Coronation Park in Lira district on Saturday, UPC top officials advised FDC to establish their base in western Uganda and not in the north.
The officials urged people in the region to ignore and deny FDC their votes in the 2011 presidential and parliamentary elections.
“They should know that Lango sub-region has become a no go-zone for FDC and other parties,†MP John Odit (Erute South) said.
“They should look for another base like the Democratic Party which has a base in the central region,†Odit added.
The function was attended by the party’s assistant secretary general, Chris Opoka, MPs Benson Obua Ogwal (Moroto county), Betty Amongi (Apac Woman), Prof. Willy Anokbonggo (Kwania) and Jimmy Akena (Lira municipality).
Presiding over the function, Akena urged those who had deserted the party to return.
Akena said the return of Owiny and the councillors was a blessing and a good sign for UPC.
Opoka said Amongi, Nelson Adea, the former parliamentary candidate for Oyam South and Dickson Ogwang who contested for Kole county in 2006 had signed a pact with the party.
Amongi advised that if the cooperation signed to bring parties together was to work, then FDC must stop referring to UPC as a weak party.
She said FDC had no support in western Uganda, but relied on the little votes they got from northern Uganda.
Five MPs that included Cecilia Ogwal, Charles Angiro Gutumoi, Ben Wacha, Rebecca Otengo and B’Leo Ojok, who signed a pact with FDC in Dokolo district last year, described UPC as a weak party and that it did not have influence beyond Karuma.
The MPs, who contested as independents after claiming that they were rigged out during the UPC primaries in 2005, said FDC was progressive.
THE Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) has warned the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) against criticising the party. Welcoming the Lira municipality mayor, Peter Owiny and 20 councillors to the party at Coronation Park in Lira district on Saturday, UPC top officials advised FDC to establish their base in western Uganda and not in the north.
The officials urged people in the region to ignore and deny FDC their votes in the 2011 presidential and parliamentary elections.
“They should know that Lango sub-region has become a no go-zone for FDC and other parties,†MP John Odit (Erute South) said.
“They should look for another base like the Democratic Party which has a base in the central region,†Odit added.
The function was attended by the party’s assistant secretary general, Chris Opoka, MPs Benson Obua Ogwal (Moroto county), Betty Amongi (Apac Woman), Prof. Willy Anokbonggo (Kwania) and Jimmy Akena (Lira municipality).
Presiding over the function, Akena urged those who had deserted the party to return.
Akena said the return of Owiny and the councillors was a blessing and a good sign for UPC.
Opoka said Amongi, Nelson Adea, the former parliamentary candidate for Oyam South and Dickson Ogwang who contested for Kole county in 2006 had signed a pact with the party.
Amongi advised that if the cooperation signed to bring parties together was to work, then FDC must stop referring to UPC as a weak party.
She said FDC had no support in western Uganda, but relied on the little votes they got from northern Uganda.
Five MPs that included Cecilia Ogwal, Charles Angiro Gutumoi, Ben Wacha, Rebecca Otengo and B’Leo Ojok, who signed a pact with FDC in Dokolo district last year, described UPC as a weak party and that it did not have influence beyond Karuma.
The MPs, who contested as independents after claiming that they were rigged out during the UPC primaries in 2005, said FDC was progressive.