SV: {UAH} Presidential debate pushes opposition to a respectable broader horizon!

So, which is the major opposition party now?

Which of the opposition candidates should face President Musseveni in a debate?

President Museveni does not need to debate against all.

If any thing, the debate is only beginning to shed light on that?!

The organisers of the debate have home work to do. Ordinarily parties which are not represented in Parliament

are exempted.

That means President Museveni if the NRM chooses to engage itself in the debate, should only consider debating against the FDC, DP or / and UPC, isn't it?

Nockrach-laduma Gaumoy Jabukwot

 

"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.

Den söndag, 17 januari 2016 4:29 skrev 'Owor Kipenji' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>:

So how many of those VOA watchers are going to vote for Mbabazi?

Kipenji

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From: georges colot <kkolokolo.george@gmail.com>
To: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 16 January 2016, 20:58
Subject: {UAH} Presidential debate pushes opposition to a respectable broader horizon!

The world watched and admired the debate in Kampala. It was a great curtain raiser to new heights for a country where dictaotorship has always been wrongly regarded as an honour to the nation, and therefore somewhat tolerated by some powers.... But since yesterday Friday ( 15/01/2016 ) things are now smartly seen from a new angle. And the millions  of people all over the world who followed or have got news about the Ugandan debate are all one in expressing full satisfaction to the event. Many have gone further to praise the seven candidates who dared their courage for the great show! I'm sure the Uganda elders forum as well as the Inter-religious council who basically initiated the project, and the UNDP, some NGOs, and Ford foundation who funded it must now be very happy with its success! The debate was a real triumph for the country! And candidate Museveni's absence has to a big extent been seen as something equivalent to lack of respect to the programme and its organizers who had the sympathy of the entire population. This absence however, in spite of somehow spoiling for Besigye who would have used the opportunity to throw the rhetoric of a politician to Museveni, was a blessing for the opposition and its message of a peaceful transition of power.... Observers now feel that the debate successfully showed what Uganda would look without Museveni! And this has destroyed Museveni's regular thinking that without him nothing can move in the nation. The debate therefore showed how Ugandans have potential to produce a high calibre of democratically-minded leaders with very sharp ambition to do good for the country! In the eyes of much of the international opinion the incumbecy was on Friday proved shaky and no longer the ever pretended invincible one!

Many observers have totally disagreed with what NRM deputy spokesman, Ofwono Opondo, said after the debate that Museveni won through his absence because all participating candidates couldn't articulate issues correctly.....! Museveni's personal issues or the general issues the candidates and the population in general have throughout brought to surface and for which solutions are systematically demanded? The debate touched on the issues required by Part I programme (of the debate) and things were okay in general! They even expressed the need to work together to fight electoral malpractices, a thing where they have the full backing of the European Community observers' team and several NGOs who are now requesting for a very thourough look in the acute question of the one million crime preventers whose action may lead to civil conflict if not severely checked! They all belong to NRM as a party and their presence anticipates events of bad omen for the country as they don't have the blessing of the opposition and the population in general! Hon Mr Mbabazi has given a severe warning on this and he is proved correct in his assessment!

The post debate events will prove crucially meaningful in many aspects. The opposition is said to have pocketed that special key needed to enter in the realm of the undecided and the indifferent pathetic voters. Outright Mbabazi, for example, was able to address a record crowd rally in Jinja today Saturday. As if what VOA has prophesied of his chances of beating the incumbent are now a true prophesy in the making! Anyway, the opposition has just got to build together, forgetting inner quarrels, and the masses will follow them. No matter what others are planning .....! The debate proved thje opposition to be one on the essential thing regarding patriotism and the yearn to fight for the people!

Good debate that tried to open new avenues for the ideal of the nation!

Congs to the debaters, the organizers, the public, and our now well known media personnel, positively present in all corners of our national life! Hats off to the international observers who saw much in yesterday's Part I of the great  historic debate!

G.H.K.

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