Mao's row with Kivumbi escalates
Mar 23, 2019
The Butambala County MP accuses the DP president of working to weaken the opposition
The row between Democratic Party (DP) president Norbert Mao and Butambala County MP Muwanga Kivumbi over the former's candidacy for the next presidential election has turned personal.
Mao, who announced early this week he would contest in the 2021 presidential election, has tweeted asking journalists not to seek "any further comments from me on the floppy and disgraceful Butambala MP".
Kivumbi is in Parliament on DP's ticket but he allegedly said on a local television station programme early this week that he had "very reliable information" that Mao was being used by the National Resistance Movement to also compete in the 2021 general elections in order to weaken the 'People Power'.
Butambala County MP Muwanga Kivumbi
People Power is a political movement led by Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine who was the first opposition figure to declare his 2021 presidential bid.
"His malicious attempt at preemption instead provoked the terrifying announcement meal-card politicians dreaded. Let Kampala Capital City Authority's faecal sludge (pit waste) management ordinance deal with this toad," Mao posted on his twitter handle @norbertmao.
Efforts by New Vision to get a comment from Kivumbi were futile as his known mobile phone number was not reachable by the time of filing this story.