John Patrick Amama Mbabazi

Former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi has vowed to go ahead with his planned presidential bid consultations starting this week in Mbale regardless of the warnings by the Inspector General of Police, General Kale Kayihura.

Speaking at his first News Conference this morning, Mbabazi said that there is nothing that will stop him from enjoying his right to assemble and associate so long as he operates under the law. Quoting the Public Order Management law, Mbabazi noted that the Police have no mandate to stop his consultations and he is not ready to succumb to any form of threats by the Inspector General of police.

Meanwhile Mbabazi indicated that his lawyers will soon be meeting with the Police and the Electoral Commission to further interpret the law on public gathering for purposes of clarity.

Meanwhile he scoffed at those who are opposed to his visit in Eastern Uganda, adding that it’s unfortunate that there are Ugandans with such attitudes in the 21st century. Mbabazi noted that such attitudes will not divert him from focusing on achieving a peaceful change of government.

Mbabazi has stressed that the notion of sole candidature is alien to the NRM party that believes in democratic principles and therefore members should desist from ring fencing specific party positions.

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• Demarcation of constituencies and electoral areas [March 10-April 18],
• Display of lists of administrative units, local governments, constituencies and electoral areas at parish and sub county levels [April 23-May 7 ],
• reorganizing polling stations [May 5-May 30],
• NRM members’ register compilation, display, complaints and final display [May 18-July 12]
• Display of reorganized polling stations at parish and sub county level [July 7-July 26 2015]
• The internal NRM elections of administrative heads from the village to the districts [July13 to August16 2015]
• General update of the register in each parish [September 1 ]
• Primaries for NRM flag bearers for parliamentary, local government [August 31 to September 30 2015],
• Meetings of NRM organs including national delegates conference, election of the presidential flag bearer, adoption of the NRM campaign manifesto among others [October 2015].

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The MP says Mbabazi exhibited abuse of office by printing his photo on the party’s official booklet titled ‘The Roadmap to the 2011 elections’. Sekikubo says this gave Mbabazi undue influence on the NRM delegates at the delegates conference yet the plan for elections was drawn by several organs of the party.

Theodore Sekikubo addressing Journalists on Monday

Sekikubo is also blaming Mbabazi for the various flaws that marred the recently concluded delegates conference of the National Resistance Movement at Namboole in Kampala.

Ssekikubo has been one of the most vocal critics of the NRM Secretary General for the various problems in the party and has even claimed before that Mbabazi is not fit to continue as the Secretary General of the party.

Ssekikubo has told journalists at Parliament that he realized that during the registration of members of the party recently at Kololo airstrip, there were incidents of multiple voter registration.

Ssekikubo was in possession of some of the cards of people who were registered and has shown the multiple cards of the various people to the journalists.

He says that some of the people that were registered more than once are Sekanya Joshua, Shyaka Richard.

Ssekikubo says there was also registration of ghost voters like Nababi Imaculate and that he knows Nababi Imaculate who he claims lived in Ssembabule died a few years ago.

He says such flaws in registration are a result of the weakness of the Secretary General and that Mbabazi by exhibiting such weakness is therefore not worth continuing as the Secretary General of the party.

Ssekikubo says no wonder that Mbabazi was booed when he tried addressing NRM members at the delegates’ conference and that clearly shows how disappointed the NRM members were with the NRM Secretary General.

Efforts to get a comment from Mbabazi were not successful by the time the story was filed, as his phone was switched off.

By Zacharia Tiberindwa, Ultimate Media

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