When renowned media guru Andrew Mwenda announced his shock move to join Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) party last week, even the dumbest of all would smell a rat.
A publicly known Museveni apologist, Mwenda’s suspicious marriage with the Kamwokya outfit wouldn’t bring any grain of optimism for any People Power supporter with a well working memory.
Shortly after the bizarre announcement, renowned political commentator Joseph Tamale Mirundi was on spot to warn the technocrats at Kamwokya to prepare for the worst now that they had welcomed a wolf within their flock.
Known for his unmatched use of metaphors to derive his message, Mirundi, a Mwenda life time foe likened the situation to a hen that lays it’s eggs under the watch of an hungry wolf.
Even though Mirundi paints the picture to demonstrate how NUP is in deep trouble with an ill intentioned Mwenda irreversibly in their ranks, People power spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi didn’t see things in that angle as he pondered hosting the poisonous activist at Kamwokya.
It all started at a television debate where the cunning scribe hit the unsuspecting Ssenyonyi so hard when he labelled his house a den of violent drug addicts who couldn’t spare a life of a perceived opponent like Mwenda is.
The scribe would determinedly go on to swear that he would surrender his “inheritance” if he made it out of Kamwokya alive if he dared visiting the home of People Power he has demonized for as long as he has had chance to.
This news website has since established that this was a well planned move by Mwenda whose success would make him pocket quite a fortune.
The plan was simple and precise. Provoke a politically inexperienced NUP official on a national TV, offer to dare visiting, and pretend to take the defeat and become a member of the party.
Since it was very natural that there would be journalists and cameras, demand for the expression of interest forms from the leaders at a time when they can least afford to refuse and then announce the grand scheme of challenging their leader.
Indeed, phase one worked according to plan. Mwenda is an eligible candidate for the NUP presidency! Did someone hear that! NUP could have Mwenda for it’s Presidential Candidate.
The second phase of Mwenda’s plot would be, to have his royal members sign up for NUP party membership so he morphs into a powerful person at Kamwokya which will create factions in the party and make it ungovernable. We have also since established that this scheme has kicked off with pro Mwenda members buying party cards for fun around the country.
Mwenda, who is by now bent on forcing for a delegates conference where a decision on who to stand as party Presidential Candidate will seek to influence the delegates by offering an eight figure amount of money to woo them on his side.
There are also reports that there are over 350 members of the original National Unity transformation and Development party who are angry after being left out of the new arrangements that saw their party morph into NUP.
The said members have already asked Electoral Commission to rescind it’s decision to okay the changes in the party as sought by Moses Kibalama Nkonge – the original party supremo.
Since they have already challenged the legality of the delegates conference of just 51 of the reported 400 delegates in the vote that offered the presidency to Bobi Wine, a decision in their favor could see them become eligible to vote under a fresh arrangement.
That would give Mwenda the numerical strength that could resultantly put him in an advantaged position to defeat Kyagulanyi and make NUP his party and possibly shift it’s headquarters from Kamwokya to somewhere maybe as far as Fort Portal.
As things stand now, no one can predict with precision where the current impasse at Kamwokya will end. What’s clear though is that the waters have been muddied. The mistake of admitting Mwenda to People Power is irreversible. He really stands a chance if an election was to be held between himself and Bobi Wine by giving heavy bribes to the delegates to vote in his favor and yet kicking him out of the process would attract protracted legal wars.
Whatever happens in future, we only pray that it doesn’t crash the rejuvenated hopes of the many change loving Ugandans that have been banking on Kamwokya to make a new history soon.
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