{UAH} LC I & II Elections: Testing the hyped FDC Structures.
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LC I & II Elections: Testing the hyped FDC Structures.
The February Election results didn't come as a surprise to few of us who expected them that way. However the greatest surprise even after a heavy blow on the presidency which was rigged by Museveni, the number of MPs elected on the FDC ticket was a shock to the country.
Having fielded 201 out of 290 candidates in directly elected MPs and 61 out of 112 Women MPs, FDC managed to get less than 50 MPs in total. It is was a shock and thereafter time to question the highly hyped structures and ground support the party claims.
During the elections, and especially in the area I was, it is evident that some voters chose to vote for Dr. Kizza Besigye for President, and vote for NRM MPs. On the NRM side, we also had people electing Museveni as the president and then elect FDC MPs. This of course is the result of the kind of politics we have chosen to play. Politics based on individuals and not parties that we say we belong to.
Everyday, Ugandans continues to be dragged to cult-politics. Where an individual is treated as thou he/she is a god at the expense of other people and the party that sacrifices all its resources to support such candidates. And this has given birth to fanaticism among Ugandans. Under a single party, we have a group supporting Besigye, another supporting Muntu, the other believe in Erias Lukwago and the other in Nandala Mafabi and funny enough one cult doesn't tolerate the other.
Mind you, this kind of support is evident in the way MPs were supported. At a point, some people refused to elect an MP because he/she belongs to the Besigye cult and the voter supports Gen. Mugisha Muntu. This costed us so many seats. Therefore the ground support we claim to have as a party is in fact divided and based on persons.
The Local Government elections show the same as we had 43 out of 112 district chairpersons, 520 out of 1,403 directly elected district councilors. I bet this number gets worse as you come down to the grassroot. These stats and facts bluntantly prove that the continued claim by FDC to having massive grassroot support is an illusion and not true. A point well said would be that Besigye has grassroot support which is true but not the party. This is not the kind of politics we should be playing. We want to have leaders at every level from FDC.
Without a big number of FDC members in all leadership roles, the party will practically never grab the presidency which they highly concentrate on. One thing I believe and say is that, FDC can still win the presidency under the rigged system of Museveni.. And this can't be by massively supporting Besigye alone but fronting and supporting as many as we can present, leaders from the party. If we can elect 300 MPs from FDC, and Besigye loses, that number would at any time by vote impeach Museveni as president and install Besigye as with no resistance & disturbance from the NRM MPs because they would be the minority.
If the Electoral College system in America or the Parliamentary System in UK and Israel was introduced in Uganda today, trust me Besigye wouldn't win. There is no way he would win the presidency with less than 50 MPs (in this case Electors in the US.) Of course the 290+ NRM MPs would again vote Museveni as President or Prime Minister (for the case of Parliamentary System.) These two systems are designed that the candidate with the highest number of electors or MPs in Parliament becomes president or prime minister. So again, in Uganda, Besigye like Hillary Clinton would win the popular vote not the electoral college vote.
So this takes us to the coming LC I & II elections this month, with the structures and grassroot support we claim to be having, are we going to see about 2,000 LC Is and at least 1,500 LC IIs from FDC being elected? Because these are the base and support of any government. Without them, we can't govern. With these upcoming elections which many people think are insignificant and won't actually participate in, we are again going to see large numbers of the little Musevenis elected and working. It's time before its too late to have the party actively involved and fielding as many LC I & II Chairpersons we have with this we will have won the village presidency!!
Good luck!
Signed: Wesley K Spartan
Dated: 02/01/2017
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-- The February Election results didn't come as a surprise to few of us who expected them that way. However the greatest surprise even after a heavy blow on the presidency which was rigged by Museveni, the number of MPs elected on the FDC ticket was a shock to the country.
Having fielded 201 out of 290 candidates in directly elected MPs and 61 out of 112 Women MPs, FDC managed to get less than 50 MPs in total. It is was a shock and thereafter time to question the highly hyped structures and ground support the party claims.
During the elections, and especially in the area I was, it is evident that some voters chose to vote for Dr. Kizza Besigye for President, and vote for NRM MPs. On the NRM side, we also had people electing Museveni as the president and then elect FDC MPs. This of course is the result of the kind of politics we have chosen to play. Politics based on individuals and not parties that we say we belong to.
Everyday, Ugandans continues to be dragged to cult-politics. Where an individual is treated as thou he/she is a god at the expense of other people and the party that sacrifices all its resources to support such candidates. And this has given birth to fanaticism among Ugandans. Under a single party, we have a group supporting Besigye, another supporting Muntu, the other believe in Erias Lukwago and the other in Nandala Mafabi and funny enough one cult doesn't tolerate the other.
Mind you, this kind of support is evident in the way MPs were supported. At a point, some people refused to elect an MP because he/she belongs to the Besigye cult and the voter supports Gen. Mugisha Muntu. This costed us so many seats. Therefore the ground support we claim to have as a party is in fact divided and based on persons.
The Local Government elections show the same as we had 43 out of 112 district chairpersons, 520 out of 1,403 directly elected district councilors. I bet this number gets worse as you come down to the grassroot. These stats and facts bluntantly prove that the continued claim by FDC to having massive grassroot support is an illusion and not true. A point well said would be that Besigye has grassroot support which is true but not the party. This is not the kind of politics we should be playing. We want to have leaders at every level from FDC.
Without a big number of FDC members in all leadership roles, the party will practically never grab the presidency which they highly concentrate on. One thing I believe and say is that, FDC can still win the presidency under the rigged system of Museveni.. And this can't be by massively supporting Besigye alone but fronting and supporting as many as we can present, leaders from the party. If we can elect 300 MPs from FDC, and Besigye loses, that number would at any time by vote impeach Museveni as president and install Besigye as with no resistance & disturbance from the NRM MPs because they would be the minority.
If the Electoral College system in America or the Parliamentary System in UK and Israel was introduced in Uganda today, trust me Besigye wouldn't win. There is no way he would win the presidency with less than 50 MPs (in this case Electors in the US.) Of course the 290+ NRM MPs would again vote Museveni as President or Prime Minister (for the case of Parliamentary System.) These two systems are designed that the candidate with the highest number of electors or MPs in Parliament becomes president or prime minister. So again, in Uganda, Besigye like Hillary Clinton would win the popular vote not the electoral college vote.
So this takes us to the coming LC I & II elections this month, with the structures and grassroot support we claim to be having, are we going to see about 2,000 LC Is and at least 1,500 LC IIs from FDC being elected? Because these are the base and support of any government. Without them, we can't govern. With these upcoming elections which many people think are insignificant and won't actually participate in, we are again going to see large numbers of the little Musevenis elected and working. It's time before its too late to have the party actively involved and fielding as many LC I & II Chairpersons we have with this we will have won the village presidency!!
Good luck!
Signed: Wesley K Spartan
Dated: 02/01/2017
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