{UAH} OBBO: The contrasts between Uganda and Kenya elections - Opinion | Daily Nation
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Just like Kenya, the two opposition candidates who are challenging Museveni are not opposition in the old-fashioned sense of the word.
They ate together with Museveni and were once his confederates and confidantes.
Besigye was Museveni's physician during the bush war and later became a remarkably clever and able ideologue after they took power in 1986.
Mbabazi was for long Musevenis'enforcer, a powerful workaholic who held several top security portfolios and was secretary-general of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).
In 2011 he was appointed prime minister. A year ago he committed the ultimate sin, for Museveni detected the glint of presidential ambition in his eyes.
All opposition luminaries of the past 25 years or so, and incumbents, all started life under the wings of former president Daniel arap Moi or walked the Kanu path at some point.
Whether it be former president Mwai Kibaki, former Prime Minister and now opposition Cord leader Raila Odinga, former VP Kalonzo Musyoka, and now President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto, all have Kanu DNA running through their veins.
So in Uganda and Kenya, and it seems soon in Tanzania too, the ruling parties are also the main opposition parties.
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