Kira Municipality Member of Parliament Ibrahim Ssemuju Nganda is to face disciplinary action over speaking ill of the political party he belongs to, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party.
The officials accuse Ssemuju of holding a meeting not sanctioned by the top echelons of FDC.
Ssemuju, who is also the FDC spokesperson, yesterday, convened a consultative meeting at Nsambya Sharing Hall in Kampala without the authorization of the party’s top brass.
Former Kasese MP Robert Centenary said Ssemuju is going to face disciplinary action for speaking ill of the party and convening a consultative meeting that was not sanctioned by the secretary general.
Centenary, who was flanked by the party chief electoral commissioner Boniface Toterebuka Bamwenda and FDC national executive committee (NEC) member Moses Okwera Mugisha, made the remarks during a media briefing at FDC headquarters in Najjanakumbi, Kampala.
The party officials advised Ssemuju to play his role as a party spokesperson and not hold diversionary meetings as it is, according to them, only the secretary general mandated to call a meeting for its party members.
Ssemuju was also warned against leaking NEC resolutions saying it is not a rally meeting.
Bamwenda said the party would not be derailed from following its roadmap for the elections of different positions.
Political analysts have advised leaders of the formerly strongest opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) to strategize and grow through the current impasse of internal wrangles.
The party chairman Wasswa Birigwa recently announced the suspension of party elections to allow the National Council to look into the emerging internal claims that included rumors that some leaders were holding illegal mobilisation campaigns against their colleagues.
Yesterday, party spokesperson Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda accused some FDC leaders including the party president Patrick Amuriat of allegedly receiving billions of shillings fraudulently from the ruling National Resistance Movement and that they were planning to hand over the party to President Museveni.
Now speaking to Endigyito radio, David Pulkol the Executive Director Africa Leadership Institute says the two-decade multi-party dispensation in Uganda is still a growing democracy in its early stages.
He appeals to FDC leaders to solve internal differences amicably and not let factions crop up at what he terms as the ‘teething’ stage of the party.
