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Succession Challenge: Is Odrek Rwabwogo suffering from an Attention Seeking Disorder or something is amiss back Home?
KAMPALA, Uganda: Odrek Rwabwogo has generated articles that have made him the man in the news for the last few months. His lines of argument have particularly focused on his purported claim of cleansing the National Resistance Movement (NRM) revolution.
We at the Investigator did write an article questioning the motivations behind the controversial series of dossiers he wrote critiquing the continuity of NRM revolution and weighing-up the continuity credentials of its leader President Yoweri Museveni, who incidentally happens to be his father in law.
Odrek had written an article in which he insisted that the NRM needed to discuss and probably resolve the succession question 'NOW' or regret the consequences of not doing so.
He also went to state bluntly that the country needed stronger institutions instead of a stronger leader, a statement which appeared to be a direct indictment on the person of President Museveni. In our previous article on 1st march 2017, read 'The M7 Family Contradictions: What Is behind Odrek Rwabwogo's Negative Stance against President Museveni, Government? we tried to navigate the probable reasons behind these negative views about the Ugandan government by Museveni's son in law.
Is it a Disorder?
But after critically observing the way Odrek has conducted himself over the last 16 months, we have concluded that he might be suffering from an Attention Seeking Disorder (ASED). We shall comeback to that later, but let's first qualify this point with facts and incidents that will connect the story.
You might recall that Odrek first dared the NRM establishment by making serious attempts to contest for the NRM Vice Chairmanship of western Uganda. Of course, he had every right to contest for the post, but the way he went about it was absolutely berserk.
First of all he had never held or showed interest in any post in the party. Secondly, he was contesting for a position that is too senior for a beginner like him in the NRM party politics. Thirdly his bid was more of stampede in the making than a deliberate and more organized scheme.
Fourth, his bid looked like an attempt to upstage the status quo of the NRM old guard than to add value to the party in particular and the country at large. This practically explains why his bid for the vice chairmanship of the NRM Western Uganda chapter took the party and the country by complete surprise.
It therefore came as no surprise that the party chairman quickly prevailed on him (Rwabwogo) to step down for the incumbent Maj Gen Matayo Kyaligonza. But despite having his political ambitions extinguished like a candle, Rwabwogo remained defiantly unfazed as he embarked on writing articles that contradicted what was expected of him, first as member of the NRM party and secondly as a member of the first family which happens to run this country. If you read the articles, you will notice a streak of tendencies that reflect characteristics of an individual with an attention seeking disorder.
Poor Timing
First of all, the timing of Rwabwogo's views is totally disconnected with what he aspires to be done. For instance when he talks of igniting the succession debate, you wonder why he is doing so at this moment when the country has just under gone elections that were held just one year ago.
How does succession become an issue when your NRM party has just elected a leader to take over the affairs of the country for the next four years? How will that newly elected leader execute his duties when you are busy clamoring for someone else to replace him?
Obviously, once the succession debate proposes a probable person to takeover, don't you think that it will disorient the incumbent and force him to divert from implementing the social program that he made with Ugandans during the previous elections?
What Odrek needed to talk about was how to make sure that all the pledges that were made by his party chairman are fulfilled to the expectations of Ugandans as captured in the NRM manifesto. He also needed to embark on how to make the NRM party more cohesive and dynamic.
In fact, as we speak now, this time is not for populist politicking but for implementing policies that will enable his NRM party (not an individual) to win the 2021 elections. But jumping to the succession talk is obviously motivated by sheer desire for attention and populist at best. Odrek has of late been also talking of ideology without elaborating clearly what was lacking in the current NRM ideology.
Is he trying to say that the NRM should design a new ideology that suits the new generation or he is simply dwelling on irrelevancies? What is undeniably true is that the succession question is very crucial for not only the NRM as a party, but for Uganda as a country because it also relates with its stability.
However, the timing of its discussion is completely off the mark-given the fact that it's just one year since elections were held. By encouraging the discussion of that debate four years before the next election simply means a lack of priority for what needs to be done for this country at this moment in time.
It can also wrongly portray Ugandans as politically drunk with lazy politics of talking about issues that don't have a bearing with the dynamics at play at a given time. Therefore, although Rwabwogo managed to excite the country by even provoking journalists to ask president Museveni to comment about the succession question, it also exposed him as an attention seeker. But we should also give credit to him because he has managed to get the attention he desired in the first place.
Lest I forget
The only irony of it is that, it may not elicit the immediate action he might have desired; meaning that it (the succession question) will remain the less talked about subject for some more time to come.
The truth is that even president Museveni himself doesn't know who will replace him. Neither does he know when or if time will come for him to voluntarily step down from power.
There is a good chance that the president might opt to treat the succession question in the same manner as Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe who obviously wants fate to decide for him on who will succeed him.
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