Bobi Wine writes to Dr Kiiza Besigye a tough letter

October 10, 2021May 23, 2022 TheDrone

Bobi Wine has sent a message to Kiiza Besigye welcoming him back from the Launch of the new pressure group.

Four time Presidential Candidate Rt Col Dr. Kiiza Besigye confirmed that he received a message from Hon Kyagulanyi who operates another pressure group called People Power welcoming him back and wishing him well after launching a new pressure group aimed at ousting Gen. Museveni out of power.

“This afternoon, I got a message from H.E. Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) welcoming us from the Front launch (which we’d discussed at length),” Besigye says.

Besigye adds that Kyagulanyi also expressed concern at the senseless attacks by Social media NUP supporters who have for long been painting Besigye a mole skin saying that he is rivaling Kyagulanyi working towards his downfall.

According to Besigye, Kyagulanyi is in support of the new pressure group and promised to work with him to oust Gen Museveni out of power.

Besigye has been the punching bag ever since Kyagulanyi rose to the political scene with many Kyagulanyi diehards telling him to pave way for the new young and energetic leader to lead them to the promised land.

Dr Kizza Besigye, and his allies in six political parties yesterday unveiled a new political pressure group to expand the frontier in their fight to oust President Museveni, in power since 1986.

Named People’s Front for Transition (PFT), Dr Besigye said the outfit, a replica of the post-2016 election People’s Government that he superintended, galvanises broader political actors willing to remove Mr Museveni by means other than elections.

“We have tested all ways [to oust Museveni] and I am an expert [in this],” said Dr Besigye, a former personal physician to Mr Museveni, who stood for elections in 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016.

“We tried to vote [but] we all agreed that a vote [alone] will not take us anywhere. We are here to gather to fight outside the possibility of an election. Those who think that an election will take us anywhere can continue, but we are here to fight on our own,” he said.
This is not the first time that Dr Besigye is dismissing elections as workable way to take the incumbent out of power. After the 2011 elections, he vowed not to subject himself to a vote, only to make a U-turn and stand for elections in 2016 on the ticket of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), a party he co-founded.

Upon losing that ballot, Dr Besigye and others formed the so-called People’s Government ostensibly as a pressure group, but critics said such a parallel political formation risked undermining and fracturing the mother FDC party from which it drew majority members and leadership.

Not much detail was yesterday provided about how the pressure group will work, but officials hinted that rallying the population to engage in peaceful civil disobedience, as was Walk-to-Work protests following the 2011 polls, is on the cards.