A Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) faction led by Kampala Lord Mayor, also party Vice President, Erias Lukwago, and party spokesperson, also Kira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, has claimed that Patrick Oboi Amuriat (POA), the party president, and Secretary General Nathan Nandala Mafabi, received billions to buy posh cars and to fight Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) party.
Ssemujju and Lukwago held a consultative meeting at Nsambya Sharing Hall in Kampala where they claimed that Amuriat and Mafabi were on a mission to deliver FDC to President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, who is also the chairman of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).
During the meeting, Ssemujju revealed that he and others have for long been privy to information that Amuriat and Mafabi were working for Museveni but had kept quiet for the good of the party, and perhaps hopeful that the duo and their acolytes would change course and dump Museveni.
Ssemujju swore that he cannot be part of a move to take the FDC to the NRM the way he thinks the country’s oldest parties, the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) and the Democratic Party (DP), have been.
“I cannot be party to a process that is going to install a ‘Mao-like’ leadership whose main objective is to carry the party to Museveni,” said Ssemujju.
It should be remembered that a year ago, DP President Norbert Mao signed a cooperation agreement with Museveni and the NRM after which he was appointed Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, and party Secretary General Gerald Blacks Siranda supported by the NRM to become an Eala MP. (See Details Here, There and Over There).
Other members of the party claimed that Amuriat and Mafabi had received billions of money from Museveni to fight NUP and buy posh cars for themselves.
FDC Deputy Treasurer General Francis Mwijukye, the Buhweju County MP and only FDC MP from Ankole sub-region, said billions had come to the party and that Treasurer General Geoffrey Ekanya had not explained where the money came from and how it was spent. It has been rumored that the money was used to buy posh cars.
“I have been betrayed by my leader, and since I’m a fighter, you cannot betray me, and I keep quiet otherwise, the money that is being talked about, the treasurer should know, but the treasurer does not know where the money came from. The money did not reach Najjanankumbi,” said Mwijukye.
The Amuriat-Lukwago faction has called on Ssemujju to apologize and resign his role as FDC spokesperson for reportedly misleading members. But Ssemujju insists that Amuriat and Mafabi are on a mission to sell FDC to Museveni. Meanwhile, the recent revelations confirm previous claims by Dr Kizza Besigye’s allies that Museveni had infiltrated the FDC Najjanankumbi office and that many top leaders were expected to appear on Museveni’s cabinet list. (See Details Here, There and Over There).
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