The writer of the article below, is merely engaged in wishful thinking. The fact is that he does not know how the UPC functions or does it's things. Let him wallow in his ignorance. He too will be surprise tho see the UPC fly higher like the Phoenix bird! Moreover, for us in the UPC we have NO room for MALWA GROUP wishful thinkers whose logic is at best very questionable.....what fools! Indeed UPC haters have time and time against for th epast 20 years have been predicting the downfal of the UPC ...we are still here and doing well. How then do you reconcile this fact with your dooms day wishful thinking?!
Matek
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UPC rift widens, split is imminent
By Edris Kiggundu
WEEKLY OBSERVER
In his resignation letter dated May 13, Kyeyune Senyonjo refers to UPCs
Constitutional Steering Commission (CSC) as the Confusion Steering Commission.
Senyonjo, who has been the secretary of UPCs Finance and Administration
Bureau, also writes that: The dictatorship in UPC is inherently worse than
Musevenis NRM.
Clearly, not all is well in the CSC. Two months since its inception, members
are raising questions about its seriousness and internal democracy.
Last week, the party dismissed the chairman of its national youth league,
James Otto, for non performance.
Rwanyarare
Walubiri
On April 23, when the party held a national consultative meeting, members like
Oweyegha Afunaduula and Nelson Umah Tete were locked out, allegedly bec ause
they had come to disorganise the meeting.
Was this their intention?
No, Afunaduula said, We had come to express our views. You can block
someone physically but not psychologically.
But CSC secretary general Peter Walubiri told The Weekly Observer that critics
like Afunaduula, Tete and Senyonjo are nonentities and proven failures who
cannot give the commission a new dimension.
CSC shunned
The expulsion of Otto brings the number of people who have quit the CSC to
five. Others are Senyonjo, Afunaduula, Dr. James Rwanyarare and Umah Tete.
Their bitterness partly stems from the fact that they were sidelined in the
CSC but also because they believe the party has veered off the democratic
path.
The four, together with other members such as Cecilia Ogwal, have now formed a
parallel (albeit still nameless) group that constantly criticises the CSC.
Rwanyarare, former chairman of the defunct Presidential Policy Commission
(PPC), which CSC replaced in March, told The Weekly Observer that he declined
the post of adviser of the party on G6 relations because it does not fit
someone of my stature.
I preferred to remain just an activist, so I declined the appointment. I
report to all party members, not to specific leaders, and my office is
everywhere, he said.
He has since taken the party president, Apollo Milton Obote, to court over
what he termed wrongful dismissal.
Badru Wegulo, the CSC chairman, is now also the partys G6 representative.
Walubiri said CSC would not lose anything even if Rwanyarare left.
He failed to even collect signatures from Kanungu where he comes from. We
tolerated him for a long time, he said.
Conference rigged?
There are now allegations that the CSC is in the process of rigging the
delegates conference in favour of some members.
The plan, which insi de sources say is already being implemented, is for some
CSC members to go the grassroots and influence the choice of delegates there.
These, in turn, shall pick the right candidate for party leadership come
August when UPC intends to hold its conference.
Tete backed these claims in his reply to Walubiris letter of May 4, which
warned him (Tete) against mingling in the affairs of the CSC.
Tete wrote: They (CSC) want to rig the UPC elections during the delegates
conference by using their handpicked delegates we shall crush this UPC
dictatorship everywhere.
So far, Rwanyarare, Aggrey Awori (Samia Bugwe North MP) and Henry Mayega, a
member of the CSC, have voiced their ambitions to succeed exiled Milton Obote
as party president.
Joseph Ochieno, a member of the CSC, however, said that the CSC could not rig
the elections because UPC is a transparent party.
Those who want leadership positions should go ou t and campaign instead of
maligning the party, he said.
Wegulo laughed off the allegations, saying empty talk would not stop them
from doing a good job.
Is CSC active?
Commenting on their performance, Wegulo said: Within two months, we have
convened a national consultative meeting, we have opened branches in Tororo,
Lira and Bushenyi; so ask those people what they mean by saying we are not
playing our part.
However, Rwanyarare countered that CSC had not done anything substantial; it
was merely building on the structures left behind by the now disbanded
Presidential Policy Commission that he headed.
Tell me, what have they done that they did not find in place? he asked.
Walubiri said that by the end of May, they had conducted elections in most
branches countrywide.
And later this month, constituency conference elections shall be held where
elected persons shall become automatic delegates at the a nnual delegates
conference.
What does the future hold?
UPC, like other parties, is headed towards a crucial period, which demands
cohesion and unity.
Frustration within a section of its members is likely to derail the party and
further undermine its image.
If the party goes into the delegates conference thus divided, it could emerge
not one but two or three factions.
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