The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) of Kizza Besigye also suffered damaging splits allegedly as a result of government plotting (AC Vol 64 No 18 Museveni's divide-and-rule master-class)...
The FDC divided into factions after the veteran leader and four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye claimed party president Patrick Amuriat Oboi and secretary general Nandala Mafabi were in Museveni's pay...
Neither the veteran oppositionist Kizza Besigye who stood against Museveni four times nor Bobi Wine who leads Uganda's opposition has said anything on the subject...
Wine wants to build a broad anti-government platform both in the country and in parliament where the NUP has 57 seats and former opposition leader Kizza Besigye's Forum for Democratic change (FDC) has 32...
Vol 63 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
In Uganda President Yoweri Museveni insists that the government cannot afford subsidies despite a series of recent opposition protests led by Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Kizza Besigye in response to the high cost of living...
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They point to the government's attempt during the 2001 elections to link the FDC's Kizza Besigye to a new violent rebel group called the People's Redemption Army and falsely claim that it was the 'armed wing' of the FDC (AC Vol 46 No 3 Operation Kisanja)...
Co–option has been limited to Joyce Ssebugwawo a former stalwart of Kizza Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change and also part of the Buganda political establishment who comes in as Minister for Information and Communication...
Adding to the sense of intimidation were the heavy military presence around the homes of Bobi Wine and fellow opposition leader Kizza Besigye and weeks of loud fighter jets crisscrossing the Kampala skies...
He held extensive talks with opposition leaders including the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) oppositionist Kizza Besigye before both men decided to go it alone against Museveni in 2016...
Kizza Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change took 34 seats in parliament this time...