{UAH} Daily Monitor has sold out in Kampala today for this issue of publication.

By Ronald Muhinda
First, Daily Monitor has sold out in Kampala today for this issue of publication.
Secondly, as a journalist, I have covered two Presidential campaigns of 2011 and 2016. I was assigned to cover FDC Presidential candidate Kizza Besigye.
Not on any single campaign rally did Kizza Besigye ever ask anyone to vote for him because he always said "I have not come to you to ask for a vote because I know you don't have it. You don't have a vote".
And that is not all. No where Besigye has gone and asked people to support him as a person or vote for him.
Besigye then went further to explain that "throwing a piece of paper (Ballot Paper) in a box when you don't have power means your vote will not matter."
Then Besigye went on to explain what power is. He said power involves "Making Decisions, Implementing Decisions and adjudication". That power Besigye always said "you don't have."
And then Besigye qualified why he was a candidate. That "I have come before you to mobilise you and ask you to organize yourselves and reclaim your country from the gun men".
"Once you have reclaimed your country from the gun men", Besigye said, "then we reorganise government to do the following: draft a new people's constitution; rebuild state institutions; conduct a process of truth telling and reconciliation; and finally HOLD FREE & FAIR ELECTIONS.
Besigye knows so well that when you don't have POWER TO DECIDE, then "you have no vote."
In the campaign, Besigye said he was mobilizing "fighters to take on Museveni and reclaim their power from him, and not voters to vote out Museveni". Why? Because to vote out someone, you must power to decide. Your vote is a decision.
I wasn't the only Journalist covering FDC Presidential candidate Kizza Besigye but I was able to understand Besigye's message.
Besigye's message in the campaign was strategic in nature and looking at the long term to change politics of Uganda and governance for good.
Besigye is the only one who went into elections to mobilize and not campaign! He knows so well you cannot take power from a military regime when you are starved with information and messages to empower you. That is why FDC cannot hold rallies or Besigye be allowed on Radio Stations outside Kampala.
So whoever is preparing to go into selections to think he will win against Museveni when 'VOTERS' have no power, it's unwise.
So if journalists didn't get the message, did the people understand it? YES.
The people who are vulnerable to misinformation understand the message but the journalists and leaders (who seek offices) keep the confusion unabated.
NOTE: Check in comment section ignorant Museveni supporters who will ask why KB contested.

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