Endorsement of Patrick Amuriat cuts chances for FDC, NUP coalition.



 

The endorsement of Engineer Patrick Oboi Amuriat as the Forum for Democratic Change(FDC) presidential flag bearer by the Party’s National Council has diminished odds of forming a coalition  between FDC and the National Unity Platform (NUP).

 

The endorsement has been seen as a drawback to a section of the opposition forces in Uganda hoping for a joint presidential candidate for 2021 elections.

 

The NUP Spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi who has been hopeful of a coalition between the two parties has revealed that the  talks about a joint presidential Candidate have been dragged because of FDC’s internal processes of selecting of selecting a presidential flag bearer.

 

However, Political Analyst Henry Kasacca believes Amuriat may not be in for a joint opposition candidate considering he is looking at Dr. Besigye as the face of his campaign.

 

Amuriat has individually on several occasions dismissed any news about talks with People power movement and later NUP citing the difference in ideology and mode of operation.

Patrick Oboi Amuriat, notes that the issue of alliances is supposed to be for the common good of regime change but not with an unstable party. “We would not make an alliance with people power, the pressure group that was not legally recognized, with no structures, even when it changed under NUP, it is still in courts of law, whose fate is not known, the reason we in FDC can’t be part of them,” Mr Amuriat said.

FDC as a party has also dismissed reports that they were in talks with NUP and other forces on fronting joint candidates ahead of 2021.
The FDC deputy spokesperson Kikonyogo recently revealed that The Opposition Forum for Democratic Change party leadership will not form an alliance with the National Unity Platform due to legal issues they are currently facing adding that no party has written officially to them about coalition talks.


"Officially, nobody has written to us to engage in unity talks. Whatever is circulating on social media platforms and anywhere else is false," Kikonyogo said.

 

 

 

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  1. UnknownOctober 11, 2020 at 9:41 AM

    These people so called the opposition are mindful about there self interest, if their aim was to change the government for the better ,then they wouldn't be forming micro_parties. They would unite in existing party and make it strong to compete with nrm, but now see nup, FDC, jema, PPP , etc now what's this!!!!

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