The leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party Robert Kyagulanyi has warned political opposition colleagues against laughing at the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), saying what is happening to the FDC can happen to any of the others.
Kyagulanyi comments came on the third day of even more dramatic developments inside the FDC whose divided leaders are embroiled in a bitter internal fight for the party’s soul.
Yesterday, the party’s national chairman Wasswa Birigwa, was reportedly held against his will inside the party headquarters in Najjanankumbi outside Kampala after he was violently prevented from addressing a scheduled press conference.
Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, advised that other opposition groups should instead learn from what is happening at FDC.
Officially, the FDC and NUP do not enjoy the best of relationships, with leaders in either party clashing on ideological lines and over how to take on the ruling establishment.
FDC president, Patrick Oboi Amuriat, and his Secretary General, Nathan Nandala Mafabi have recently accused senior colleagues of being in cahoots with NUP, a charge those named have, however, denied.
For two weeks now, FDC party senior officials have been at each other’s throats, accusing one another of pocketing billions of shillings from the State House to disorganize the party.
But the ruling National Resistance Movement party, has publicly protested their non-involvement in the unrest at Najjanankumbi.
