Bakiga urged to vote NRM
Mar 10, 2010
THE NRM party secretary general, Amama Mbabazi, has asked the people of Rukiga in Kabale district not to vote people he called ‘spectators’ in Parliament.
By Darious Magara
THE NRM party secretary general, Amama Mbabazi, has asked the people of Rukiga in Kabale district not to vote people he called ‘spectators’ in Parliament.
He said voting Adison Kakuru, the NRM party flag-bearer in the Rukiga parliamentary byelection, is the best choice.
Mbabazi, who is also the Minister for Security, made the remarks on Monday while addressing a rally in Rwamucucu in Rukiga where he launched the party campaigns for Kakuru.
Mbabazi was accompanied by Dorothy Hyuha, the minister without portfolio and deputy secretary general of the NRM party.
“It is wrong to vote for Sabiiti, an FDC party official, because he will not be connected to the NRM and the decision making bodies,†Mbabazi said.
“Since the opposition MPs are few and Ugandans in 2006 gave the NRM mandate to run the Government, a non-NRM leader will be a ‘spectator’ in Parliament,†he added.
He told the NRM supporters, especially those whose candidates lost to Kakuru in the NRM primaries, to concede defeat and support the winner for the good of the party.
Kakuru, who has been the Kabale district chairman, faces competition from Amos Mugisha, an independent and the FDC stalwart, Jack Sabiiti, who is fighting to regain the seat he lost in 2006 to the late Sam Byanagwa.
Amos Mugisha, a businessman in Kampala, is contesting for the seat as an independent candidate after losing to Kakuru in the NRM primaries recently.
Efforts to ask Mugisha to pull out of the race in favour of Kakuru, including a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni last week, have yielded no results.
Mbabazi said the party was at a risk of losing the seat, a scenario similar to the recent one in the Mbale parliamentary byelection which was won by an FDC candidate.
The NRM supporters in Rukiga divide their support between two candidates.
Mbabazi pledged that the Government would implement its manifesto and promises in the areas of health, roads and electricity extension to improve the standards of living of the residents.
The Kabale NRM party chairperson, Hope Mwesigye, who is also the agriculture minister, urged NRM supporters to bury their differences and support Kakuru.
“In politics, people need to concede defeat because there will always be a winner and a loser in elections. my friend Mugisha should concede defeat,†she said.
The Electoral commission set March 22 as the voting day in which 43,887 voters are expected to cast their votes.
THE NRM party secretary general, Amama Mbabazi, has asked the people of Rukiga in Kabale district not to vote people he called ‘spectators’ in Parliament.
He said voting Adison Kakuru, the NRM party flag-bearer in the Rukiga parliamentary byelection, is the best choice.
Mbabazi, who is also the Minister for Security, made the remarks on Monday while addressing a rally in Rwamucucu in Rukiga where he launched the party campaigns for Kakuru.
Mbabazi was accompanied by Dorothy Hyuha, the minister without portfolio and deputy secretary general of the NRM party.
“It is wrong to vote for Sabiiti, an FDC party official, because he will not be connected to the NRM and the decision making bodies,†Mbabazi said.
“Since the opposition MPs are few and Ugandans in 2006 gave the NRM mandate to run the Government, a non-NRM leader will be a ‘spectator’ in Parliament,†he added.
He told the NRM supporters, especially those whose candidates lost to Kakuru in the NRM primaries, to concede defeat and support the winner for the good of the party.
Kakuru, who has been the Kabale district chairman, faces competition from Amos Mugisha, an independent and the FDC stalwart, Jack Sabiiti, who is fighting to regain the seat he lost in 2006 to the late Sam Byanagwa.
Amos Mugisha, a businessman in Kampala, is contesting for the seat as an independent candidate after losing to Kakuru in the NRM primaries recently.
Efforts to ask Mugisha to pull out of the race in favour of Kakuru, including a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni last week, have yielded no results.
Mbabazi said the party was at a risk of losing the seat, a scenario similar to the recent one in the Mbale parliamentary byelection which was won by an FDC candidate.
The NRM supporters in Rukiga divide their support between two candidates.
Mbabazi pledged that the Government would implement its manifesto and promises in the areas of health, roads and electricity extension to improve the standards of living of the residents.
The Kabale NRM party chairperson, Hope Mwesigye, who is also the agriculture minister, urged NRM supporters to bury their differences and support Kakuru.
“In politics, people need to concede defeat because there will always be a winner and a loser in elections. my friend Mugisha should concede defeat,†she said.
The Electoral commission set March 22 as the voting day in which 43,887 voters are expected to cast their votes.