DP considers postponing Delegates Conference
May 18, 2015
Following the conflicts that have characterized the party’s grassroots’ elections, the Democratic Party (DP) leaders are considering postponing their Delegates Conference from June to July
By Moses Mulondo
Following the conflicts that have characterized the party’s grassroots’ elections, the Democratic Party (DP) leaders are considering postponing their Delegates Conference from June to July.
Speaking to The New Vision today (Monday), the DP Secretary General Mathias Nsubuga said, “The way it looks, we are likely to postpone the Delegates Conference but will not go beyond July.”
Nsubuga said he needs adequate time to compile the party’s voters’ register which will take to the Delegates Conference.
The roadmap the party leaders had issued last month indicated the Delegates Conference for electing new national party leaders would be he held from 18th to 21st of June.
The DP organizing secretary Charles Mutebi Sserunjogi said they have received petitions from members in various parts of country protesting the outcome of grassroots elections.
Those who have already announced and are campaigning to take over the presidency of DP include the Buikwe South MP Dr. Michael Lulume Bayiga, former presidential candidate Sam Walter Lubega.
A section of DP members are persuading Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago to contest but he has not yet announced.
The party president Norbert Mao, who is on a sick leave which he started in February, has kept members in darkness on whether he will seek re-election or not.
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