FDC faction wants internal elections postponed, party EC disbanded

The top leadership of the FDC agreed at the recently concluded FDC national council, held at the party headquarters in Najjanankumbi, that the party structure elections should go forward as planned, despite pleas from several party leaders to postpone the process.

The FDC faction leaders, led by the party spokesperson, Semujju Nganda, and the vice president for the Central Region and Kampala City Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, told the media in Kampala that the polls are unconstitutional because the majority of party leaders are opposed to the procedure.

"The Toterebuka Bamwenda electoral commission must be disbanded and replaced with a new credible and impartial electoral commission. The new commission should propose a new electoral roadmap for approval by the National Executive Committee," Ssemujju said.

Semujju stated that there are no electoral officials in the process, accusing Nandala and certain district chairmen of selecting people 'posing' as FDC EC officials.

Earlier, Ssemujju questioned the source of money Nandala and Amuriat were using for party activities.

Ssemujju, who was supported by Lukwaago, alleged that the "questioned money" came from President Museveni, who is also the party Chairperson of the National Resistance Movement (NRM).

"The party has been receiving questionable money. We don’t know where this money is coming from, but we suspect it is from Mr. Museveni. I am not going to be party to activities that would lead to the sale of the party to Mr. Museveni," Ssemujju said during Capital Gang, a current affairs talk show on Capital FM, a local radio station in Uganda.

Former party president and four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye also raised the same concerns, saying the state (meaning Uganda) is under capture by Museveni and his family.

Besigye alleged that Museveni has done everything to ruin the FDC, once Uganda’s leading opposition political party.