The collapse of talks to return former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi to government shows that Museveni is not planning a transition insiders tell Africa Confidential (AC Vol 62 No 12 Motorbike killers strike again)...
Besides the speakership insiders expect former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi who fell out with and challenged Museveni in the 2016 elections to be part of the new cabinet quite possibly as Prime Minister (AC Vol 62 No 6 The opposition plans its pushback)...
Insiders say the President has been in talks with former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi to bring him back into the fold and help run the government...
He fell out with politicians he once favoured most spectacularly when former prime minister Amama Mbabazi tried to unseat useveni from within the NRM...
Former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi was able to mobilise major financial support for his unsuccessful bid for the presidency and Museveni wants to prevent that from happening again (AC Vol 57 No 3 How the next election will be won)...
The dispute was over the fate of Christopher Aine a bodyguard of Amama Mbabazi the former Prime Minister who broke with Museveni before standing against him in the election...
In 2014 Anite spearheaded a move to persuade NRM members to endorse the sole candidature of President Museveni who at the time faced an internal party contest from then Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi (AC Vol 55 No 21 Mbabazi on the ropes)...
Museveni's traditional stronghold in the south-west has seen growing signs of dissent in recent years fuelled by ethnic animosities and the political campaigns of Besigye and former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi both of whom hail from the south-west Kigezi District...
They include Major General Matayo Kyaligonza who sits on the NRM's powerful Central Executive Committee and previously spoke out in favour of John Patrick Amama Mbabazi's presidential bid but without backing his candidacy (AC Vol 38 No 2 Tough Tinyefuza & Vol 57 No 5 Spender takes all)...
In tears James Munyakyongole recounts the agony of his rotting leg to independent presidential candidate John Patrick Amama Mbabazi prompting him to offer payment for his medical treatment: 'I'm a citizen at the end of the day what do you expect me to do...