{UAH} Bobi Wine accused of forging signatures that changed NURP to NUP

Kyadondo East MP also presidential aspirant, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has been accused of forging signatures and documents to enable him to acquire the leadership of the defunct National Unity, Reconciliation and Development Party (NURP).

 

NURP would later morph into the National Unity Platform (NUP) currently headed by Kyagulanyi as party president. Some former NURP founder members accused Kyagulanyi through city lawyer, James Byamukama of forgery. Addressing the media on Tuesday, Byamukama said NURP has 395 registered members, but the party name was changed by only 51 members.

The petitioners also claimed that even the 51 people who are claimed to have agreed to change NURP to NUP, only three are original members on the list that was filed with the Electoral Commission and was last updated in December 2017.  

 

"You have a membership list of 395 but only 51 people sitting somewhere decided to change the entire leadership of the party. There was nothing like transparency in what was happening. This was not a true party meeting, I crosschecked the 51 names against the official registered list of members. They do not appear except 3 people. Nkonge Moses Kibalama appears in the official list, someone else called Serunkuma and someone called Kakonge. All the other 51 are not appearing in the official registered list. In many cases, the membership list of that extraordinary meeting which elected the new office bearers headed by honourable Bobi Wine is almost as if one person is writing on behalf of others." said Byamukama. 

 

Lawyer James Byamukama

 

Byamukama explained that the NURP constitution required that a delegates' conference be convened if the party name or leadership are to be changed. Based on such alleged irregularities, Byamukama said NURP founders and original members want the Electoral Commission to explain how NUP was registered in disregards to the party constitution.

"They want to understand how NURP was changed to NUP. For this to happen, you must call a delegates' conference for members to discuss, agree or deliberate on what changes should be made. In this case, a few people wrote to EC and the name was changed like that," Byamukama said.

Last week, Electoral Commission (EC) chairperson Simon Mugeny Byabakama said the commission was studying the petition challenging the change of name and leadership at NURP to see if they could resolve the matter.

But former NURP president Moses Nkonge Kibalama who handed over the leadership to Kyagulanyi, challenged the petitioners to prove their membership to the NURP party. Kibalama accused them of being used and masquerading as NURP members and petitioning the Electoral Commission in a bid fail the political ambitions of Kyagulanyi. 

 

EC spokesperson Paul Bukenya said as far as the commission is concerned, NURP fulfilled all the legal requirements needed to change the party name and leadership. Last month, Kyagulanyi unveiled NUP as the political vehicle for his People Power pressure group. NUP officials claim nearly, 20,000 aspirants for various elective positions have already picked NUP nominations forms.

https://www.observer.ug/news/headlines/66084-bobi-wine-accused-of-forging-signatures-that-changed-nurp-to-nup
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