The National Unity Platform (NUP)

However, the NUP Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga, has dismissed reports of any divisions within the party, adding that they are products of imaginations on the loose.

“This is probably a figment of somebody’s wild imagination. I belong to the top organs of the party, and meetings sit as and when it is necessary. I have not heard a policy or decision disagreement to the level I have seen in some form of a shabbily cooked story,” he said.

Mpuuga believes the real aim of these media reports indicating a split among the top NUP leaders are part of a wider conspiracy to ferment disagreements amongst the rank and file of NUP. As a result, demoralise NUP members into discarding their party cards.

“A party is an organisation in the public domain; not somebody’s estate. If there are any fundamental departures on positions or approaches, they are openly discussed, and such can’t constitute a fissure in the party,” he noted.

Mpuuga alleged that some sections of the media are extensions of the state apparatus, reaching beyond their grasp to destroy the party.

“I want to disappoint them that it is not about to happen. When we meet, we deliberate on issues within and without the party in the country, in Parliament among others. We are not a bunch of fools that whenever an issue comes, we chorus about it; we deliberate,” he said.

NUP was launched in July 2020 under the leadership of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, who described the party’s launch as “yet another important step in our liberation struggle” and said he hoped to unite a fragmented opposition to oust Yoweri Museveni.