Addressing journalists at the party headquarters today, Akena confirms that this was reached upon following a retreat held last week which finally endorsed the cabinet appointment of Hon. Ruth Aceng and Hon. Betty Amongi to take up the cabinet posts where they were appointed.

He further explains that the party’s minimum agenda in this mix will address critical national issues that deal with health, education and agriculture coupled with spear heading talks between the NRM and the opposition as they look forward to transform Ugandans. He further clarifies that the arrest of one Dan Oola Oduya a UPC members in Gulu has no connections to the party since he had broken ranks with the UPC and decided to work for the Go Forward candidate adding that the matters currently surrounding Dan’s arrest are personal and not related to the party.

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The member of parliament for Masaka municipality Mathias Mpuuga said that Dr. Otunnu is still needed in Uganda politics since the country has few experienced and respected politicians. Mpuuga said that he will talk to him so as he changes his mind and remain around for non-elective politics to help the next generation to baby seat the country’s democracy. The woman Member of Parliament for Lira district Joy Atim Ongom said that Otunu should not quit politics over wrangles in UPC since there are always solutions to problems.

However, Maruzi Member of Parliament in Apac district Maxwel Akora said that though he exhibited good leadership at the beginning as the party president he was later selfish when he blocked the party successor Jimmy Akana to run the party.

A politician, diplomat, and lawyer, Otunnu has been President of UPC from 2010 to 2015. Otunnu ran in 2010 to succeed Miria Obote, wife of former President Milton Obote, as president of the UPC. He says that although he is leaving active politics UPC still needs him as its member. Otunnu succeeded Miria Obote, wife of former President Milton Obote, in 2010 as president of the UPC after defeating the now party president at UPC headquarters, Jimmy Akena,

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The late Milton Obote, former leader of UPC

Uganda People’s Congress-UPC has rubbished allegations by FDC presidential candidate Rt Col Kizza Besigye. This follows Besigye on 1st this month saying that Uganda has never experienced a peaceful power transition without wars. UPC secretary General Edward Sseganyi says UPC in the 60’s captured power from then President Idi Amini’s regime by peace and then from Tito Okello Lutwa.

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Division in the Uganda People’s Congress party is not about to end. The party which has ever been in power twice finds that some of its Members of Parliament are calling for the current party president Jimmy Akena to vacate the party offices.

The UPC MPs are divided over their two rivals: the ousted UPC president Olara Otunu and current President Jimmy Akena. UPC Parliamentary caucus chairman who is also Otuke county MP Rev. Father Dr. Jacinto Ogwal says since he sides with the ousted President Olara Otunu the other MPs who support Jimmy Akena cannot even support the common cause of The Democratic Alliance (TDA), which is a coalition planning to present one candidate for the opposition to stand against the incumbent, in a bid to not divide the opposition vote.

Jacinto Ogwal asked Jimmy Akena to leave the party because he is illegally in it and told him to apologize to party members over the chaos he caused at the party when his supporters destroyed the party properties. He said that the party is being destroyed because some UPC Members of Parliament are relatives to Jimmy Akena.

Ogwal further stressed that UPC Members of Parliament who belong to ousted party president Olara Otunu support TDA for opposition to have one candidate in the next presidential general election though Jimmy Akena said that he will stand for president in 2021.

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He said that in order to show that people that support Akena leadership are ready to welcome whoever comes to them they have left some major positions in the party to be occupied by those who lost during the elections that saw Akena becoming the president of the party.

Ebil said that if they don’t come back as leaders they will report back to Central executive committee which will take decision. Meanwhile Ebil says that Dr. Olara Otunnu is now a former president and therefore should leave the current leadership to do its work without interference

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Seven candidates nominated for Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) party presidency say that are not scared of the former party president’s son Jimmy Akena in this race. This follows the son of late Milton Obote forcing the party president Olara Otunu to ignore the party election guidelines and allow him, Jimmy Akena, to be nominated for the party president race a few days after the nomination exercise closed.

Addressing a news conference at parliament a group of seven UPC nominated candidates led by the Member of Parliament for Moroto County, Benson Obua Ogwal said that they are ready to take on Jimmy Akena and are confident one of them will defeat him. The group said that it was passable for Otunu to violate the party election guidelines to enable Jimmy Akena to contest because it will help the party members unify.

However, the UPC national chairman Edward Kakonge said that Jimmy Akena is not fit to be the party president because he is moving in the shadow of his late father instead of having his own identity.

UPC was once headed by Akena’s father Dr. Milton Obote and his mother Miria Kalule Obote; both stood for Ugandan presidency. Nominated candidates for UPC top post include Benson Obua Ogwal, Sam Wandeka, Joseph Bossa, Julius Ochan, David Pulkal, Edward Kakonge, Dan Okello and Jimmy Akena.

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The president of Uganda Peoples Congress Dr. Olara Otunu has advised supporters of the ruling political party in Uganda to stop mistreating people. He says that when the big thugs and politicians in government are out of Uganda and have fled to Burundi or Rwanda or US, the small people they have been using to persecute people will remain behind.

He says that when President Museveni and his family members will flee the country, the policemen and soldiers who are persecuting civilians will claim they were obeying orders of their masters from statehouse.
Otunnu says that the people reportedly committing atrocities in president Museveni’s government are adults with brains and they will be held criminally liable.

So Otunnu advises president Museveni’s cohorts, allies, and government officials to keep the diary of the events they do and those that have violated people’s rights to remember that the date and time of occurrence is at their door posts.

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Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) has called for an extra ordinary meeting over leadership wrangles surrounding the management of Milton Obote Foundation.

According to sources, the meeting has been influenced by the family members of late Milton Obote. We are reliably informed that the meeting will take place on 17^th April 2012 on the 11^th floor of Uganda house in Kampala starting at 9am.

The widow of Milton Obote, Miria Obote has confirmed the meeting. Others who have confirmed the meeting are Okello Okello, John Okumu, Prof. Patrick Rubaihayo, Eng. Chris Opoka, Nelson Ofwono, BNI Barungi, Prof. Faustino, Orach Meza, Chris Opoka Okumu, Hon. James Akena, Robert Elagot and Moses Apiliga.

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The meeting we are told took place in Kasangati in the home of Col. Kiiza Besigye of FDC. In attendance was UPC President, Dr. Olara Otunnu, Social Democratic Party president Michael Mabikke, DP representatives and Col. Besigye himself was present.

The donors asked Besigye and other opposition leaders who were in the meeting why they don’t unit to form a one party opposition force to oust president Museveni. Otunnu, and the DP officials deliberated on the issue.

In the meeting, DP, UPC and SDP declined to form a joint opposition party. But they agreed to work together in the struggle to oust Museveni. From the meeting, Besigye and group went to Namasuba Kalina zone for a joint rally.

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The party members want the court to order Otunnu to call the UPC national delegates conference.  Currently Otunnu has refused to call the party’s delegates conference for fear of losing his post in the conference. Other lawyers Otunnu’s enemies in the party have hired to represent them in the battle against Otunnu are Hamza Sewankambo, Chris Opoka and Edward Rurangaranga.

Rurangaranga says that they also want the court to rule that all the party officials Otunnu sacked recently were sacked illegally and they should be reinstated. Otunnu also yesterday told the media that he regrets why he joined UPC.

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