Opposition leaders such as the Democratic Party's Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere Winnie Byanyima and Okumu Ronald Reagan had petitioned against the 2002 Political Organisations Act which banned parties from holding rallies campaigning in elections and opening offices outside Kampala; they claimed that this rendered political parties 'non-functional and inoperative' imposing a one-party state...
Museveni refused - at least in public - to recognise that Besigye had a point and repeatedly called him and his wife Museveni's former lover Winnie Byanyima 'traitors'...
Outspoken member of parliament Winnie Byanyima argues that the NRM should compete for power like any other party...
Among the most trenchant critics are NRM militants: popular figures such as MP Winnie Byanyima and Major John Kazoora...