{UAH} HAS M7 FINALLY ABANDONED SEKIKUBO & SENT KABATSI TO REPRESENT RWEMIYAGA AS HER SUPPORTERS CLAIM?

January 10, 2020

By Mulengera Reporter

There are indications that long-serving Rwemiyaga County MP Theodore Sekikubo has irretrievably lost favor of the President and even reconciliatory efforts by Gen Salim Saleh are so far not yielding much. Mulengera News has impeccably established that sometime back, Gen Saleh reached out to the President pleading the case for Sekikubo who has always become reconciliatory towards the President whenever its nearing election time.

This approach is good for Sekikubo because his Rwemiyaga County is full of NRM diehards and being at loggerheads with their hero Museveni naturally diminishes anyone's chances at getting elected there. This is the reason why, despite being a famous rebel MP, Sekikubo has always been reluctant to decamp from NRM. So, a reluctant Museveni told Saleh to ask Sekikubo (whose late father used to be the family doctor for the Kagutas when their son was away fighting) to come with three old men who happen to have been close friends of his late father Mzee Kangave Mwagalwa.

Sekikubo brought the three old men one of whom was his paternal uncle (young brother to late Mwagalwa). In the meeting that took place at Entebbe State House, where Gen Saleh led them, Museveni (who in 2016 unexpectedly forgave and backed Sekikubo as part of the strategy to isolate JPAM who he feared would attract rebel MPs) strangely met them for a very short time. He actually didn't allow them to say anything. He instead furiously made the following remarks; "I have called you to warn this Sekikubo in your hearing as family elders. Its his father, and not him, that was my personal friend but he has gone too far ever abusing Museveni. Sekikubo you are free to speak on radios, TVs and that Parliament of yours but please I warn you to leave the name Museveni alone or else you will heavily pay for repeatedly being abusive towards Museveni." 

Knowledgeable sources tell Mulengera News that after saying those things, Museveni (who furiously shut up Mwagalwa's young brother who raised his hand seeking to say something) signaled one of his bodyguards to come and lead the group out of his sight insisting he wanted to go and do other "better things" because he has been patient with belligerent Sekikubo for too long. The group matched as peace-maker Gen Saleh helplessly looked on. Those who know Museveni and have closely worked with him long enough say this is indicative he is done with Sekikubo, a man many for long construed to be like his foster son.

Taking advantage of Gen Saleh's unsuccessful reconciliation efforts, Joy Kabatsi (Sekikubo former ally) has stepped forward imposing her Ministerial clout while indicating to voters "the President has sent me to liberate Rwemiyaga from Sekikubo." Kabatsi has found allies with some of the powerful actors (within Sembabule and nearby Nyabushozi) that have always lounged to see Sekikubo out of the way. And Sekikubo believes security Minister Gen Elly Tumwine is among these strong Kabatsi backers and recently complained to the Speaker Kadaga claiming Tumwine was using his docket as security Minister to undermine him.

Photo montage of Sekikubo, Kabatsi, Museveni & Gen Saleh whose efforts at reconciliation have continued to be snubbed by Museveni who says he has had enough of Sekikubo's politics that has always been belligerent towards him

Actually, Kabatsi has hired and invited big name Kampala musicians to Sembabule this weekend to come and perform at the ceremony where she will be launching her MP bid against Sekikubo. Their fallout largely relates to the ways in which tycoon Basajjabalaba (and her sister Grace) caused Kabatsi problems as legal advisor to the President resulting into her disgraceful exit from State House in the early 2010s.

And her entry into the race has prompted some pro-Sekikubo supporters to begin mobilizing along ethnic lines. She is a Muhima and Sekikubo is a Muganda whose late daddy migrated to Rwemiyaga as a casual medicine man from a place called Kangave in present day Nakaseke. Kabatsi's Bahima co-ethnics are numerically significant but fewer than Bairu and other tribes unlike in Sam Kutesa's Mawogola where Bahima are the majority. Actually, Kabatsi's ethnicity is being used to scare off would-be voters by telling them she has been fronted by Sam Kutesa. There is also Patrick Kateeba, the Director Finance at NIRA, who equally is in the race and he is a Mwiru too. In the impending NRM primaries, an increasingly paranoid Sekikubo will face both Kateeba and Kabatsi on top of two other contenders.

Photo montage of Sekikubo and Patrick Kateeba, the NIRA Finance Manager menacingly eyeing his seat

 M7 SEKIKUBO SECRETS

Riding on the leverage his father Mwagalwa built as the local medicine man that treated Mzee Kaguta for the years his sons were away fighting bush wars, Sekikubo has always fallen back on Museveni's name to politically get his way. And on taking power in 1986, Museveni gratefully reached out to Mwagalwa saying "Mzee I'm very grateful you treated and kept my father alive and I'm taking up your son Sekikubo and educate him until he gets tired of studying."  On finishing education, all courtesy of Museveni, Sekikubo sought for a job prompting Museveni to send him to the Finance Ministry where he directed creation of a desk his foster son would head. The technocrats there weren't very enthusiastic about this and their hostility forced Sekikubo to stay for a short time.

URA was his next work destination where he served for a while before Museveni backed him to get employed at Defense headquarters then in Bombo. It's from there that he plunged into the politics of Rwemiyaga in 2001 (cruising in a simple Mitsubishi car) easily trouncing Sam Rwakojo who majority Bairu voters resented on the account of his Bahima ethnicity. Patrick Nkalubo, who has severally stood against Sekikubo as a Kutesa proxy, was the Returning Officer who ensured his longtime foe Rwakojo didn't win. That is how Sekikubo has continued winning elections since 2001 and by 2021 he will have served for 20 straight years as MP yet he still wants more. Being human, he naturally suffers the political fatigue associated with being an incumbent for such a long time and these are the circumstances Kabatsi and Kateeba hope to exploit to retire him in 2021 general elections. (For comments, call, text or whatsapp us on 0705579994 or email us at mulengera2040@gmail.com

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