DP sets conditions for Sebaggala return

Jan 07, 2015

A day after Nasser Sebaggala resigned as adviser to President Yoweri Museveni, the DP has set conditions he has to meet.


By Moses Walubiri & Alex Gahima

A day after Nasser Sebaggala resigned as adviser to President Yoweri Museveni, the Democratic Party (DP) has set conditions he has to meet, if he is to be welcomed back to the party.

Sebaggala, a long-time DP stalwart and one-time contender for the party presidency, joined the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in 2010.

This was after current party president, Norbert Mao, edged him out in an acrimonious contest.

Sebaggala on Monday resigned as Museveni’s adviser.

“DP’s constitution is clear on this. One ceases to be a party member, if he resigns, dies or joins another political party.”

“If Sebaggala decides to renounce his membership to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who am I to stop him from rejoining DP,” Mao told the press at the party headquarters in Kampala Tuesday.

At a press conference in which he addressed a host of issues, Mao said “ousting Museveni will require wooing those defecting from NRM.”

Mao, however, declined to say whether he was concerned about Sebaggala’s reliability given his ‘political flip-flopping.’

“I have not spoken to Sebaggala for a long time. I met him at a petrol station in Bugolobi and he said, ‘Mao, what are you doing? You’re missing out on the cash bonanza’.”

Now that his expectations have not been met, he must be disappointed, Mao stated.

At a recent welcome party for former co-ordinator of intelligence services, David Sejusa, Sebaggala revealed that he acted as a mole inside Col. Kizza Besigye’s camp during the 2001 elections.

After forming a political party, LDP, in the run-up to the 2011 polls, Sebaggala surprised many when he threw his weight behind Museveni.

When Parliament’s appointments committee declined to ratify his appointment as minister without portfolio, Museveni appointed him presidential adviser.

In his resignation letter, Sebaggala regretted joining NRM, vowing to expend his energies on the “struggle for freedom and democracy”.

Attempts to get a comment from him were futile as he did not answer his calls.


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