All this saga comes in after her failure to be endorsed as the FDC flager bearer for EALA. It is rumoured that the FDC president, Col. Kiiza Besigye backed a junior Ingrid Turinawe. And the party’s national Mobiliser Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu and a team of his youth backed Anita Amongi who is also been seen as a junior to Salaamu Musumba. This has very much annoyed the senior Salaamu Musumba and other elders in the party.

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Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) is planning to replace its leader Col. Kiiza Besigye in July this year. Besigye has been in the political rhyme of FDC for over eight years.

The leadership of FDC has already drawn a roadmap for choosing a person to replace Kiiza Besigye. Besigye announced that he was set to leave the post after three unsuccessful runs for President of Uganda.

The FDC secretary general, Alice Alaso, recently presented the roadmap for transitioning from Besigye to a new FDC leader perhaps Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu or opposition leader Nandala Mafabi to two of FDC’s top organs- the management committee and the National Executive Committee.

The two committees have a duty to adopt the roadmap. Alaso says that the dates for a meeting to replace Besigye are not yet known.

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Present were Hon. Eng Amuriat MP Humi County,  Dr. Besigye, Salamu Musumba, Gen. Mugisha Muntu, Hon Kasiano Wadri, Hon, Florence Ibi, Hon. Dr. Epetit, Hon. Okupa, Hon Sasaga. Major Kazoora, Nandala Mafabi and Mike Mukula.

Then the RDC of Humi Mpimbaza Ashaka came and wanted to stop the rally. But Besigye and the people power was too big for the RDC to contain. Besigye then picked a microphone and told the people that RDC Ashaka was chased from Makerere University for cheating exams. The RDC jumped to grab the microphone from Besigye and the fight erupted. The RDC later left the rally very disappointed and went to report the fracas at the police.

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 Muntu told this informer that by law former army commanders receive cars, house and they remain receiving their salaries until they die. But when he finished his work as army commander president Museveni as the commander in chief of UPDF gave him a 4wd vehicle and he refused to take it. Muntu says that he told the people who had brought him the car to go back and tell Museveni that ‘am (Muntu) done.’

The former army commander also says that one day Museveni called and told him that he was going to promote him to general and become defence minister. “I told him I’m done. One day we were in Kyankwanzi and I stood and challenged the president on third term. I told him that we went to the bush to fight over staying in power.” he recalls.

 Muntu goes ahead: “When I was in the bush, formerUgandapresident Milton Obote looked after my family. While in the bush, I was shot twice and Obote met my bill. When I recovered he bought me a brand new benz. I packed it at statehouse and went back to the bush. I am over strict and whenever I see a mistake I have to tell it so Uganda needs people like me to be presidents,” he says.

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Although the next presidential elections will take place in 2016, FDC says it wants to begin the process so early such that by the time 2016 clocks in every Ugandan knows who is who in FDC and who is the best suitable candidates.

The people still interested in running for president on FDC ticket include Col. Kiiza Besigye, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu, and Opposition leader in parliament, Nandala Mafabi, and Chwa MP Reagan Okumu among others.

Kampala FDC supporters, according to sources have been tasked to organize rallies in which the people expecting to run for president on the party ticket will stand and sell themselves to the public.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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