Police say they have finalized their strategy to bar former premier Amama Mbabazi from accessing Mbale town to hold his first consultation meeting. The commander of operations Andrew Felix Kaweesi who has pitched camp in Mbale has said that they would only allow Mbabazi to enter the town with the right credentials spelt in the Law of Uganda and the NRM Party.
Amama Mbabazi defends his intentions to stand for NRM flag-bearer and, by extension, presidential candidate in the 2016 general elections. The panel puts him to task to explain what he has to offer the country and also ask him to answer some issues pertaining to the many years in which he held ministerial positions, including ~Prime Minister.
The former Premier has scoffed at Gen Kale Kayihura, after the Inspector General of Police said he would not allow Amama Mbabazi to conduct nationwide consultations. Currently in the United States, Mbabazi was appearing on the Voice of America Straight talk hosted by Shaka Ssali, a Ugandan journalist. Mbabazi said the incumbent should smell the coffee because change is inevitable.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 -This week on Straight Talk Africa with Host Shaka Ssali, Amama Mbabazi has announced he will challenge Ugandan President Museveni for the ruling party’s 2016 presidential nomination and discusses the hardships of limitless presidential terms.
Former Premier, Amama Mbabazi, says he could sue the Electoral Commission in the courts of law for violating his inherent right. In a letter written to the Chairperson Electoral Commission, Mbabazi, through his lawyers says he is within the confines of the law. One of his lawyers, Fred Muwema, was reacting to comments attributed to the EC publicist, Jotham Taremwa, in the Daily Monitor where he was quoted as saying Mbabazi was out of order for announcing his candidature before the electoral body had released the campaign program. Taremwa says he did not make comments attributed to him.
Former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has declared that he will be offering himself for Presidency in the 2016 General Election ending long months of speculation. In a 5 minute You-tube Video, Mbabazi says he will vie for the position of the NRM flag bearer at the party’s delegates conference and later as Presidential candidate in the 2016 general election.
The opposition Forum for Democratic Change party has agreed to work with former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi in their quest to cause regime change. FDC President Gen. Mugisha Muntu says the party is willing to work with all people interested in advancing Uganda’s democratization process. Last month, Mbabazi, a former Secretary General of the ruing NRM party said he was also open to working with the opposition. Gen. Muntu spoke a few hours ahead of the signing of a pact among the opposition and civil Society activists on a joint front ahead of the 2016 general elections.
The former Prime Minister and NRM Secretary General, Amama Mbabazi, says the registration of NRM party members that’s set to begin tomorrow is an exercise that would be better done by having an update of the existing register. Mbabazi made the comments at his Kololo residence in Kampala where he received a group of youth from Mbarara district going by the name “Western Mbabazi Brigade.”