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WOBULENZI - The ruling
Movement is not set to leave power in the next twenty years, the Presidential
assistant on political affairs Mr Moses Byaruhanga has publicly mentioned.
“I
don’t see the Movement leaving power in the next 20 years,” said
Byaruhanga. He was speaking as chief guest at the swearing-in ceremony of Mr
Tito Ddamulira Mutuluki as the new mayor for Wobulenzi town council, April 1.
He
said the movement system was still very strong to be challenged by the old or
any of the newly registered political parties in the elections to come.
“No
one can take away the power from the Movement,” he said amidst scanty
cheers. Byaruhanga told celebrants that the Movement was still very popular
among Ugandans and called on the opposition to get ready to face the
challenge in the next elections to come.
“We have already registered our party and we shall defeat the rest in
the 2006 polls,” he boasted. Byaruhanga said the Movement party will
vet all its candidates in the 2006 and other elections to come in order to
avoid any collisions among the members of the same party.
He
warned that the government had lost many seats to the opposition because of
having more than one Movement candidates in a single race. He cited an
example of Lubaga South constituency where he said Hon. Ken Lukyamuzi went to
parliament with a percentage victory of only 28% in 1996 because the Movement
had many of its own candidates in the race.
Byaruhanga made a stunning prediction that the Movement party might have over
50% of its candidates going through unopposed in the 2006 Parliamentary
elections.
The
new Mayor, Mr. Tito Ddamulira Mutuluki called on the losing camps to join him
in implementing his manifesto for the remaining two years. Mr. Richard
Mubeezi, one of the three candidates attended the function but Mr. Sebastian
Ssebagala never showed up.
The
function was attended by Education Minister, Prof. Khidu Makubuya, RDC,
Geoffrey Kyomukama and the CAO, Mr. Simon Mpiira Bigairwe among others.
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