Since the NRM ignored the process altogether the opposition has been divided on whether to call a boycott – as supported by Besigye and Olara Otunnu former President of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) – or press on with the election as preferred by the TDA's other three leaders: Mbabazi Norbert Mao of the Democratic Party (DP) and a former national Vice-President Professor Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya...
The UPC looks in little better shape after Jimmy Akena was declared leader and presidential candidate in party elections on 2 June replacing outgoing leader Olara Otunnu...
Two of this year’s presidential candidates Democratic Party (DP) leader Norbert Mao and Olara Otunnu of the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) led their own walks in Kampala and were detained...
The ‘northern’ opposition candidates Norbert Mao and Olara Otunnu squeezed Besigye out reducing the FDC vote to 26% in former strongholds which had seen majorities for the party in 2006...
The wide field of candidates particularly Olara Otunnu (injured in a mysterious car accident on 14 February) of the Uganda People’s Congress and Norbert Mao of the Democratic Party will also grab votes in the (less populous) north and reduce Museveni’s share: he won a disputed 59% of votes in 2006...
Olara Otunnu of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) and Norbert Mao’s Democratic Party (DP) run national campaigns of their own which draw attention away from Besigye without looking like winning more than 5% of the vote...
Olara Otunnu of the Uganda People’s Congress who pulled out of the opposition coalition in August claiming the poll would be too tainted to be worth contesting performed a volte-face under UPC pressure and decided to run...
The election will be contested by Museveni (NRM) Besigye (FDC) Norbert Mao (Democratic Party) Jaberi Bidandi Ssali (People’s Progressive Party) Beti Olive Kamya (Uganda Federal Alliance) Abed Bwanika (People’s Development Party) Olara Otunnu (UPC) and Samuel Lubega (Independent)...
When Besigye a former Colonel takes on Museveni for a third consecutive time he will not have the support of Olara Otunnu’s Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC)...
With only six months before Ugandans go to the polls opposition parties are mired in disagreement after Olara Otunnu made a bid to undermine attempts to field a unity candidate in the 2011 presidential election...
UPC President Olara Otunnu is another northerner who was foreign minister under the late President Milton Obote and then a United Nations diplomat...