NRM's Namayanja receives top FDC supporters

 

KAMPALA - About 38 opposition youth leaders mainly from the forum for democratic Change (FDC) on Friday crossed to the ruling party, citing lack of political focus by their leaders.

 

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) National Treasurer, Rose Namayanja-Nsereko, received the delegation at the party's headquarters in Kampala while encouraging them to stick to their decision. 

 

"Reliability and dependability are key in politics and you have made the right choice," Namayanja said. 

 

She officially handed over a copy of the Party Constitution and a party shirt to each of the converts. 

 

The group was led by their Chairperson, Lawrence Mugumya, who has also been the FDC youth chairperson of Kalangala district.

 

Namayanja told the converts that she was personally one of the founders of the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) but after a while, she realised the group lacked a clear political ideology and she quit.

 

UYD is the youthful wing of the Democratic Party and four of these converts belonged there.

 

She took them through her political journey from a village youth leader to a youth MP, District Woman MP, state minister for Luwero Triangle, Cabinet minister for information and national guidance to her current position as NRM National Treasurer. 

 

"You are in the right place. NRM is all inclusive and that is how I have also gone through all these ranks. You will be treated equally like others because we are non-discriminative," she added. 

 

Mugumya said they had noticed that most of their FDC leaders were quietly collaborating with NRM despite their negative talk against the ruling Party during the day.

 

He also said they had been deceived for so long that the NRM government would fall but it was instead getting stronger as the opposition gets more divided into smaller sectarian groups.

 

The converts pledged to bring more opposition youths to the NRM family.