{UAH} WHO IS WHO IN BOBI WINE’S NUP CABINET

By Mulengera Reporters

Mulengera News has landed on credible information showing the names of key trusted leaders that Bobi Wine has secretly submitted to the Electoral Commission to form the pioneer executive of his new political party called National Unity Platform (NUP). In a letter dated Monday 20^th July, the new party leadership informed the EC that a Delegates Conference had been held at Kakiri Hotel Gardens (in Wakiso district on Tuesday 14^th July). And that during the said delegates conference, party members participated in transparent electoral exercise and democratically elected new leaders to replace founding President Moses Nkonge Kibalama & other old executive members.

The list, which the EC has since accepted and gazetted as credible, includes Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu who the EC is informed to have been elected as new Party President with a couple of others. The other executive members, as purportedly elected at Kakiri Gardens Hotel, include Fred Nyanzi Sentamu (National Secretary for mobilization), Flavia Kalule Nabagabe (Secretary Women Affairs), Davis Lewis Rubagonya (Secretary General), Aisha Kabanda Nalule (Deputy Secretary General implying she has left JEEMA) and Paul Simbwa Kagombe (Senior Administrative Secretary). In the Kyagulanyi political movement, this list has remained a top secret with many thinking there will be an opportunity for elections for them to ascend top executive positions in the party.

Mulengera News has this Wednesday afternoon interviewed EC Chairman Justice Simon Byabakama who sent for NUP file, verified from and confirmed the above are the national leaders of Bobi Wine's NUP party as registered with the EC. He says there are aspects on which they are satisfied as the EC and others on which they aren't satisfied implying that Bobi Wine could be up for real political trouble in the coming weeks and months with the regulator. Byabakama, for instance, says that Moses Kibalama the founder President of National Unity Reconciliation & Development Party (NURP) complied with Section 11 of Political Parties &Organizations Act by writing to the EC notifying them of desire to change the name to NUP. Byabakama says this was communicated in July 2019 and the EC proceeded to publish the same intention in the gazette, a GoU newspaper, in which such things must mandatorily be published always by the EC. Byabakama explains that this publication in the gazette is a legal requirement aimed at notifying and enabling those with reason to object to such change to do so. Nobody came up objecting prompting the EC to permit Kibalama to have his wish. Byabakama says Section 11 is mandatorily applicable to all the other changes an existing party might wish to occasion including change of constitution, symbol or even colors.

The bad news Byabakama delivers for the multitudes of Kyagulanyi political admirers is that Mzee Kibalama (renowned for excellent deal-making) might have misrepresented certain things to his supposed partners in PP. For instance, Byabakama reveals that when Kibalama wrote to EC notifying them about desire to redesign & change party colors and symbol (from white umbrella to one that remains an umbrella but having red being the dominant color) and seeking the Commission permission to do so, they objected in writing but the man from Buwambo never got back to them. He instead just went silent yet they expected him to get back to show how he had responded to their concerns as to why NUP wouldn't be permitted to use red as their dominant color on the umbrella. All said and done, Byabakama says there will be no short cuts because all these are legal requirements clearly written and stipulated in the PPOA Act in very unambiguous language.

"We wrote back to him on 20th July objecting to the use of color red because it already belongs to an existing political party [UPC]," says Byabakama adding that using red, a color already registered as UPC's, is prohibited under Section 18 of Political Parties & Organizations Act. "We informed them that their application to register red as their color was inadmissible and they haven't responded to that since. We have only been reading in the press that they went ahead to have it as their color in the umbrella which is simply inadmissible in law because that color already belongs to UPC yet they went ahead and unveiled it to the public from what I have been reading in the press. They have no clearance from the Commission and that remains the position," Byabakama says further explaining that for one to legibly use any color as part of their symbol (even in case where there was no UPC-like dispute regarding red), the same has to be cleared and gazetted by the EC which hasn't yet been done in the case of NUP into which some seasoned politicians like Masaka Mathias Mpuuga have taken refugee having got problems with their party DP.

"To change anything you must be cleared by the EC and in this case we haven't gazetted that change of the identifying symbols of that party. This is very important because it's about changing the identifying symbol which the EC must sanction. We only sanctioned change of name and nothing else because they haven't gotten back to us since our letter of 20^th July," Byabakama contends. All this potentially very disturbing information is coming out at a time some Kamwokya-affiliated political actors are reflecting on the circumstances under which Kibalama shrewdly attended the inauguration of the new Kenyan President where he was identified and accepted by the event organizers as one of the diplomatic representatives of the GoU. Did Bobi Wine, who has since demanded total political loyalty from whoever wants to ride on his NUP momentum to win an elective seat, walk himself into a political landmine by transacting with Mzee Kibalama (who MP Kasule Sebunya says is too NRM to wish anything good for opposition)? Only time will tell.

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