On Friday, former Kumi Member of Parliament, Patrick Oboi Amuriat defeated Gen Mugisha Muntu, the incumbent in the race for the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidency.
Muntu who was running for the second and last term garnered 463 votes (41.1 per cent) against Amuriat’s 641 (57.6 per cent). He was defeated at all the six polling stations at Namboole national stadium.
However, observers who keenly follow politics in FDC say what most people will pick from these and previous elections is that the party’s founding president Dr Kizza Besigye and Muntu see very differently the issue of what FDC needs to do to undermine President Yoweri Museveni’s government or to bring it down.
In fact, FDC spokesperson Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda while talking to a local daily, Daily Monitor, he noted that Muntu may leave the party.
'At the moment, Gen Muntu is not in any party organ and is where I think the makers of the constitution went wrong. After Muntu losing the seat of the presidency, he cannot be involved in anything and it means he can leave the party and join another. This is wrong; we really need to work on this part. However, it will entirely depend on Amuriat and those who won to decide on what to do with the party. What is disturbing us most is the issue of reconciling the differences between the defiance and the organization. We cant ride on a tactic because after some time the opponent will master it. We have to build structure and for us, the organisation is a structure.'
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