{UAH} FDC SHOULD DEFIANTLY GET MORE SERIOUS

FDC SHOULD DEFIANTLY GET MORE SERIOUS

Uganda's leading opposition party, the FDC is campaigning for the February, 2016 polls on the platform of 'defiance'.  This defiance message is about rallying the masses to defy the traditional  methods that Museveni has always used to rig himself into victory.  Such methods are:  intimidation by security forces, voter bribery, bribery of polling agents,  ballot stuffing, Museveni threatening to return to war if not elected, tampering with voters register, harassment and curtailing of rival contestants, altering of the results at tallying centers, etc.  Members of the security forces are Museveni's key agents in the above schemes.  Much of the above stuff has already been rolled out and it is in the late stages of implementation.  The main opposition forces have to some extent  put up a spirited fight of defiance.  Their main weapon has been to instil confidence in the voters who are desperately yearning for change. They are being encouraged to team up and turn up in big numbers to cast their votes on the premises that this time round the leaders have the capacity to  secure the vote tallying process. 

Though candidate Mbabazi is not disclosing the method that he will use to guard his vote, his message of capacity to guard his vote at the national tallying center is gaining ground simply because he had until recently been a top regine confidant thus voters believe that he knows the tactics that the regime uses to rig.   On the other hand, candidate Dr. Besigye  and his FDC party have put in place a countrywide vote guarding and monitoring mechanism dubbed P10 (Power Ten) whereby its supporters are grouped in clusters of ten people at all levels countrywide.   They are telling voters to turn up in big numbers and cast their votes and that they should not leave the polling stations until after the counting and declaration of results.  This is what has sent Museveni and company into panic.  Coupled by the guilty consciousness for 30 years hold on power, the massive enthusiasm displayed by voters at opposition campaign rallies and the shifting international opinion, the regime has no alternative but to unleash highly levels of open bribery and violence.

However, since the regime is fused with the former state of Uganda, it has the capacity  to crash the seemingly effective vote guarding mechanisms that are being assembled by the  opposition contestants.  Speaking to the press in Karamoja last week, FDC Secretary General Mandala Mafabi gave an insight into what P10 is all about.  The organisational and operational structures of P10 are just wonderful.  Unfortunately, Hon. Mandala added that P10 was to rely on WHATSAP to convey its poll results from the polling stations through diffent levels to the National opposition tally center.  The scheme would look brighter if its operationalization was not dependent on the regime's communication communication infrastructure.  At the close of the polling day, the regime will blackout all all internet, telephone, and radio connections.   The opposition tally centres will be raided, its gadgets confiscated and personnel arrested almost the same way it happened during the 2011 polls.

On the other hand, the opposition need to get more serious by considering all possible scenarios.  WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY.

INFORMATION IS POWER.




































 INFORMATION IS POWER

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Viele GruBe

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