Other members of the proposed cabinet include former FDC MP Cecilia Ogwal; Alex Ruhunda a former FDC member; FDC MP Anita Among; Muhamad Nsereko an independent-minded National Resistance Movement member; and FDC MP Abdu Katuntu...
Among the rejected independents were the formidable but vacillating Miria Matembe - former NRM minister former FDC member - who finally ran under her own banner and the former UPC troublemaker Cecilia Ogwal defeated by Jimmy Akena son of her deceased enemy President Apollo Milton Obote...
The struggle for the future of Uganda's oldest political party began almost ten years ago when the member of parliament for Lira Municipality Cecilia Ogwal went against Obote's wishes and stood in the 1996 parliamentary elections...
The push for multipartyism and the referendum came first from local oppositionists such as the Democratic Party's Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere and the Uganda People's Congress's Cecilia Ogwal...
The UPC hopes he can re-inspire the party which has been weakened by leadership by remote control and disputes among the party faithful (especially between Obote and Cecilia Ogwal member of parliament for Lira municipality on Obote's home turf)...
Nevertheless the UPC's Cecilia Ogwal went on the campaign trail with Ssemogerere and spoke of an informal agreement...
But Ssemogerere also courted northern supporters of Obote's old Uganda People's Congress appearing in public with UPC stalwarts such as Cecilia Ogwal Patrick Mwondha and Omara Otubo...