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 violent regimes of Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada stir raw memories thanks to constant reminders from Museveni...
The north's own Uganda People's Congress may take votes in the Lango region home of the long-time party leader and two-term President the late Milton Obote...
Meanwhile the Uganda People's Congress has elected Miria Obote widow of its founder Milton Obote to lead the party in the elections...
First came 80-year-old Apollo Milton Obote leader of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC)...
Even Milton Obote's own supporters were taken aback by the impact of his death and funeral...
Equally unready is the UPC whose aged leader former President (Apollo) Milton Obote is a spent force unlikely to return from exile in Zambia; two possible candidates are Henry Mayega and Joseph Pinytek Ochieno...
For nearly two decades the ruling National Resistance Movement (evolving into 'the Movement' in 1995) has been warning that multiparty politics would send Uganda back into the murderous turmoil that prevailed under (Apollo) Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada...
Democratic passions have been revived by ex-President Apollo Milton Obote who announced his return to Uganda after 20 years of exile in Zambia but then said he'd changed his mind...
Museveni blames Milton Obote for massacres in Buganda's Luwero district during the five-year guerrilla war that brought Museveni to power in January 1986...
The UPC President former national President Milton Obote casts a long shadow from Zambia where he lives...
The Milton Obote Foundation controls substantial party funds and the Obote cult is as much a part of the UPC as Museveni's is of the NRM...
But the war has tended to help Museveni's NRM which has exploited it to rally the peoples of central and western Uganda against the fear that the northerners may come back to power as under ex-Presidents Milton Obote Idi Amin Dada and their brief successors...