Bwanika blasts inter-party leaders
Mar 16, 2010
Abed Bwanika, the president of the People’s Development Party (PDP), has blasted the leaders of the Inter-Party Cooperation, saying they are a small group of people hit by power hunger.
By Patrick Okino
Abed Bwanika, the president of the People’s Development Party (PDP), has blasted the leaders of the Inter-Party Cooperation, saying they are a small group of people hit by power hunger.
Addressing journalists at Pacific Grand Hotel in Lira district on Friday, Bwanika said his party refused to join the cooperation because their framework was not clear and they lacked the vision to transform Uganda.
The Conservative Party (CP), Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and Justice Forum (JEEMA) form the cooperation.
The parties have signed a protocol to work together and advocate for the removal of all constitutional, legal, electoral, administrative and economic obstacles to the full realisation of free and open democratic multiparty governance in Uganda.
They also plan to front a single presidential candidate to battle with President Yoweri Museveni in the 2011 election. Bwanika said most of the cooperation officials were based in Kampala and could not decide on behalf of the 32 million Ugandans to front one candidate.
“These are a small group of people sitting in Kampala and enjoying life in Sheraton Hotel. They do not know what is happening across the country,†Bwanika said.
He said according to research done by his party, 70% of Ugandans needed a change but not through an alliance. He also urged Parliament to reduce the voting age to 16 years and set a law for compulsory voting.
Bwanika, who was in Lira to recruit people to his party, said compulsory voting was being practised in Germany and had yielded good results.
Abed Bwanika, the president of the People’s Development Party (PDP), has blasted the leaders of the Inter-Party Cooperation, saying they are a small group of people hit by power hunger.
Addressing journalists at Pacific Grand Hotel in Lira district on Friday, Bwanika said his party refused to join the cooperation because their framework was not clear and they lacked the vision to transform Uganda.
The Conservative Party (CP), Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and Justice Forum (JEEMA) form the cooperation.
The parties have signed a protocol to work together and advocate for the removal of all constitutional, legal, electoral, administrative and economic obstacles to the full realisation of free and open democratic multiparty governance in Uganda.
They also plan to front a single presidential candidate to battle with President Yoweri Museveni in the 2011 election. Bwanika said most of the cooperation officials were based in Kampala and could not decide on behalf of the 32 million Ugandans to front one candidate.
“These are a small group of people sitting in Kampala and enjoying life in Sheraton Hotel. They do not know what is happening across the country,†Bwanika said.
He said according to research done by his party, 70% of Ugandans needed a change but not through an alliance. He also urged Parliament to reduce the voting age to 16 years and set a law for compulsory voting.
Bwanika, who was in Lira to recruit people to his party, said compulsory voting was being practised in Germany and had yielded good results.