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Uganda: Vote Me, Your Own, Bwanika Tells Baganda
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Kampala — Three-time presidential candidate, Dr Abed Bwanika, has appealed to Baganda to vote for him because he is one of them.
Dr Bwanika said he is disturbed by the way Baganda vote, in most cases preferring candidates from other regions as opposed to one of their own.
"I have been campaigning in other regions but they are asking me, 'if we support you, will Buganda vote you?" Dr Bwanika said in an interview last week.
In the 1996 elections, President Museveni polled 1,221,165 votes in Buganda while Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere, a Muganda, polled 331,641 although the latter won in other regions, including West Nile.
However, Makerere University political scientist Sabiti Makara said Dr Bwanika should first research to verify if his message resonates with the aspirations of Buganda and its leaders at Mengo.
"Other candidates are addressing pertinent issues to Buganda. They are promising federal," Prof Makara said by telephone yesterday.
Buganda has since the constitutional-making time in 1994/95 yearned for a federal system of governance it held in the post-independence era.
Former president Milton Obote revoked the 1962 Constitution and banned kingdoms during the 1966 crisis.
Both Dr Kizza Besigye of the Forum For Democratic Change and former premier Amama Mbabazi have on different occasions promised to grant Buganda a federal status when elected president on February 18.
Dr Frank Nabwiso, a veteran politician in Jinja District, says: "Hiding under ethnicity is out of place.
Since independence, all regions have had a president except the east, so should we (easterners) all rally behind Maureen Kyalya [the only female presidential candidate]?"
But Dr Bwanika insists his appeal to the people where he hails from cannot be interpreted as tribal.
"It is not illegal to ask the people where I come from for support," Dr Bwanika said, adding that he supported President Museveni in the 1996 elections Dr Besigye in 2001.
Another analyst, Dr Fredrick Kisekka-Ntale, says the voting patterns in Buganda are not the same as in other regions. "The only uniting factor in Buganda is the Kabaka. Baganda will vote you not as a group but as individuals," Dr Kisekka-Ntale said, adding that Buganda is now porous with many tribes and anyone who uses tribal lenses is bound to fail.
Recently, Buganda Parliamentary Caucus vice chairperson Betty Nambooze said: "Buganda region has missed opportunities, including the delayed return of kingdom properties, due to our failure to build a strong political ground.
This is the last time we are supporting presidential candidates from other regions, our counterparts should support us just as we have done to them over the years."
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