Democratic Front’s Mpuuga Sets Tough Conditions On Joining M7 Gov’t After Blaming Bobi Wine For Weakening Opposition…

The former Leader of Opposition in Parliament Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba of the Democratic Front (DF) has set tough conditions if he is to join President Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) government.

MPs Medard Lubega Sseggona, Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba (C) and Asuman Basalirwa who were all defeated in the recent election

The former Leader of Opposition in Parliament Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba of the Democratic Front (DF) has set tough conditions if he is to join President Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) government.

Appearing on Radio Simba’s Olutindo political talk show, Mpuuga explained that for him to join Museveni government, there should be a structured procedure to follow and it should be in writing noting that him or the political party he is leading don’t make one-day decisions like they are looking for a job or money.

He said that the negotiation of him joining Museveni should be in the open with all concerned stakeholders present.

He added that the agreement has to be with a life span including when it expires.

He insisted that the government he joins should be a coalition government established to achieve a certain goal for the good of the country.

He explained that in the coalition government, they should work on changing the electoral laws, promote Rule of Law, fight corruption and allow all Ugandans to benefit from the country’s resources without discrimination as it is now.

Mpuuga didn’t rule out talks with Museveni especially when the matter is of national importance explaining that it is the same reason why former Democratic Party(DP) president Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere and other opposition leaders decided to join Museveni when he captured power through an armed resistance in 1986.

Mpuuga emphasised that there is a difference between the route Ssemogerere took and the one that the current DP president Norbert Mao used to join Museveni government.

He disclosed that Mao joined Museveni government because he was looking for a job and it is the reason why he didn’t use his office as the Minister of Justices and Constitutional Affairs to bring change in the country especially to support his electoral laws.

Recently, Mao claimed that Mpuuga and the leadership of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) are in talks with President Museveni to work in his government.

This was after accusing National Unity Platform (NUP) and People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) of radicalism and trying to take power through bloodshed.

Ono Bwino separately learnt that opposition leaders are lobbying for their people to be accommodated in Museveni’s coming government as Resident District Commissioners (RDC) and City Resident Commissioners, ministers and other juicy slots.

Sources said that DP, DF and FDC are openly lobbying and among those who are fighting for RDC jobs in the coming government include Kennedy Mutenyo the chairperson of the DP election management Committee, defeated Kimanya-Kabonera legislator Dr Abed Bwanika, Mike Mabikke, Samuel Lubega Mukaku and a number of others.

However, Mpuuga said that whoever joins Museveni’s government without a structural process will do so at his own personal will not the party.

He further accused Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine) leadership of weakening the opposition which him and other political and civil society actors built for a long period because of his selfishness.

He claimed that Bobi Wine and his henchmen and women shifted the goal of fighting Museveni and started fighting opposition leaders by branding them as spies.

He divulged that he was surprised seeing him and the current Leader of Opposition in parliament Joel Ssenyonyi joining NRM legislators in fighting his electoral laws which he brought to parliament to help to clean the dirty elections organised by the EC.

He maintained that Museveni is happy because Bobi Wine helped him to weaken the opposition but warned that him and other real opposition have gone back to the drawing board to strategise on how to overthrow his government.

Mpuuga with other faded opposition politicians formed DF after refusing to take Bobi Wine’s offer of apologising to the country over the Shs500m service award which the NUP boss claimed was given to Mpuuga illegally.

He even branded it as corruption and asked him to resign from the office of the Commissioner of Parliament.