Rtd Col Kiiza Besigye has launched a new battle front to oust Bobi Wine out of the opposition’s main seat. The former FDC president Dr Kiiza Besigye yesterday launched a new pressure group named People Front for Transition that will be at direct logger heads with Kyagulanyi’s People Power.
Kyagulanyi whose fame swept away Besigye out of the driving seat of the opposition left the four time Presidential candidate so bothered on how he can get a come back to be in total control.
Kyagulanyi’s group didnot only sweep Besigye but also swept away his party as the top opposition party in the country a position that comes with a lot of privileges.
This time, Besigye has moved fast bringing together disgruntled NUP members like Lubega Mukaaku and Keneth Paul Kakande as well as other senior politicians like John Kenny Lukyamuzi to forge a new front of salvation.
The group has also attracted former Katikiro of Buganda Daniel Muliika who is expected to bring a wide vast of knowledge and experience into the group.
Kyagulanyi who thought his only enemy was Museveni will now have to double his efforts as a new rival has arrived on the scene reducing his chances of capturing power.
Dr Besigye noted that the challenges that President Museveni’s government presents to Ugandans and the opposition today, which they are confronting head-on, mirrors similar problems that undergirded the fight for independence: repression, poverty, ignorance and disease.
Fighting and surmounting the last three handicaps was a central promise by Obote when he received the instruments of power from departing British colonial masters, 59 years ago, as Uganda’s first executive prime minister.
There was no immediate government reaction to the Opposition re-launched pressure group on the eve of Uganda’s 59th independence anniversary, which will be observed tomorrow.
Uganda People Congress, Obote’s party that led Uganda to independence and governed the country twice (1962-1971, 1980-1985), is among the amalgam of parties constituting the new political formation christened PFT.
It was launched in Kampala yesterday at the offices of the Justice Forum or Jeema, a political party led by Bugiri Municipality Member of Parliament Asuman Basalirwa, and other subscribers include FDC, Uganda’s oldest surviving political party, the Democratic Party or DP, the Conservative Party (CP), People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Dr Besigye was named its leader while Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and Ms Christine Akiria will deputise him to lead the “Red Card” crusade against Mr Museveni.
PFT spokesperson, Mr Wafula Oguttu, said the mandate of the Besigye-led People’s Government, of which he was a member, had lapsed but the new outfit will continue its unfinished work.
