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While speaking to this website in a telephone interview, the party chairperson of the once-leading opposition political party said that he has now managed to get half the money he needs to organise a delegate conference.
"The FDC delegates conference is still on and the organisation is underway. We have been able to put together half of the money required. The delegate conference is needed in order for us to get to the heart of some of the burning issues within the party," he said.
On Sunday, September 17, 2023, Court issued an order stopping the party from holding any delegates conference "the final disposal of the main application for the temporary injunction or until further orders of the court."
One faction belonging to Birigwa has however insisted that the event must go on as planned.
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It should be noted that he had earlier asked the party leadership to provide money to the tune of sh360 million in order to organise a delegate conference in an effort to get party members to solve the burning issues within the party.
The party’s secretary-general, Nathan Nandala Mafabi, however, said that Birigwa did not inform the party organs, including him (the secretary-general), who is the principal accounting officer of the party.
Mafabi said in a letter he issued on September 2 that Birigwa only made mention of the delegate’s conference in the media without officially informing the party’s organs.
Mafabi also accused Birigwa of implementing resolutions made by Kizza Besigye at the Katonga office, which he said was not the party’s official organ.
On Tuesday, September 12, 2023, former party president and founding member Kizza Besigye questioned party president Patrick Amuriat for trying to foil efforts by Birigwa to organise a delegate conference. Besigye argued that Amuriat has no power to stop the party chairperson from going forward with the delegate conference.