UPC supporters who say that nobody within the party is against Olara Otunu, I believe they are just in denial and anybody can see it. There is a section of UPC supporters that dont want Otunu in Uganda House and they could do anything to boot him out, but they are making a mistake, actually a big mistake. This group came up with an excuse that Dr.Otunu’s election as UPC President was in violation of the party constitution, but if we flip the coins: assuming James Akena had won that election, would they still be crying over spoilt milk? The answer is ‘no’. Therefore, i ask James Akena again to come out and distance himself from the group working to bring Otunu down because this is gonna affect UPC in both the short and long term. There are no two ways about it.
The UPC faction with no address is clandestinely working against Dr.Otunu. This is an open secret. The UPC faction with no address is the one that was against UPC joining the IPC and they are Oboteists. For them, without Obote’s ghost or his son or family member, there is no UPC, and probably that’s what was broken in the UPC constitution by Dr.Otunu.
Let me leave you with a message posted on my blog from one of the most respected elders in UPC. Probably, you will understand what I’m talking about. It was posted on April 21, 2010 at 12:52 am:”Semuwemba,The fact of the matter is UPC is split and no amount of trying to explain the split away in terms of Jimmy Akena misleading the people of Lango will help Otunnu. As WBK said earlier, in a large measure it is the people leading Akena and not the other way round. An example is what happened just before Otunnu went to Lira. Akena was told in no uncertain terms that he would open a major flood gate into NRM by merely standing near Otunnu. That is the reason you never saw Akena besides Otunnu in Lira, much as Lira Municipality is Akena’s constituency. Later when Otunnu met the elders in Lira they told him they would not accept Akena to hold sinecure offices in Otunnu’s cabinet.
Semuwemba, let me tell you: it is simply resources which is holding us up from opening a rival office to that Otunnu in Kampala. And let me assure you, were such an office to be opened, you would see a flood of UPCs flocking to that office and not 6th floor Uganda House.” Yoga Adhola.
But overall, OO is the best thing that has ever happened to UPC since 1980s. He has made them a party we now talk about positively in newspapers and forums under Museveni. He has reconnected them to the international community with better lines than before. He did better than Mao in the north in the just concluded elections. He did better than Miria Obote in elections despite the fact that he did not vigorously campaign like others.
OO's problem is trusting people easily. There are people working 24/7 to bring him down but he reluctantly trusts them with certain responsibilities with hope that they will ultimately agree to work with him, but they never do. That is why he keeps sacking people every now and then. He needs to usher in a totally new administration regime at ''OUR' Uganda House- if he wants to reduce this pressure on himself. He needs loyal people around him. Obviously, there are those he should keep persuading to work with him like Akena James and my UAH-London friend whose name i have forgotten, but i have seen a few of his postings here again ever since Otto Patrick left.
I heard that OO came back with a lot of money from USA naye abana nabamukuba zi - written proposals on a daily basis, but he is now learning on a job. He is learning that some Ugandans are dodgy. So he will be ok. UPC should give him more time to do his job.
Nze bwendaba
Abbey
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