{UAH} NUP's Speakership Committee Releases Its Report

NUP's Speakership Committee Releases Its Report

Led by Mathias Mpuuga with Aisha Kabanda serving as Secretary, the Committee put in place by the NUP retreat in Jinja to chat a way forward on the Speakership race for the 11th Parliament has finalized its work. 

The report proposes that NUP directs its 52 MPs to vote for Rebecca Kadaga but on condition that she isn't Gen Museveni's candidate.

Now the largest opposition party, with  52 out of the 109 opposition  MPs in the 11th Parliament, they are vowing to front their own candidate and denounce the incumbent should Kadaga get endorsed by both CEC and NRM caucus as the ruling party candidate for Speakership.

"The report will be discussed and processed further during the NUP caucus retreat this Sunday. And our ultimate decision will be guided by what becomes the NRM final position. Should they front Kadaga as their official candidate, then NUP will front its own candidate for Speakership because we aren't comfortable endorsing someone fronted and sponsored by a party whose leadership remains unapologetic about ongoing abduction and kidnaps of our people," says a top NUP official close to the process.  

  

The irony in all this is that NUP risks being castigated for being incoherent and simplistic on this issue with some analysts already asserting that the more prudent position would be to endorse and vote for a candidate who has good merit regardless of who else supports him or her or stand firm with opposition FDC candidate Ssemujju Nganda rather than hobnobing with an NRM who presided over parliament in the 2017 constitution rape.

"What then would be the point supporting someone who you give conditions not to be supported by another party which moreover has 337 MPs out of the total 529 comprising the 11th Parliament? It's a game of numbers and how then do you work towards decimating your candidate's numbers by demanding that they first denounce NRM which clearly controls more than 50% of the Electoral College to determine the next Speaker?" says one of the political pundits we spoke to for this article.

It's a very crippling condition Kadaga is very unlikely to accept and to be correctly understood, the NUP will require a Semujju Nganda-like publicist to explain away the ambiguity their vague position on Speakership is likely to create. So numerically strong is NRM that no serious contender should be expected or required to fulfill a condition that antagonizes him or her with such a party in the 11th Parliament.

Mulengera.com

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https://www.lutimbe.com/2021/05/22/inside-the-nups-speakership-committee-report/

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