Several Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leaders have come out to accuse the General Mugisha Muntu led "New Formation" of working to weaken the opposition.
General Mugisha Muntu President of ANT party |
Aruu North legislator Odonga Otto believes that the pressure group formed by former FDC president Muntu is covertly working to promote the interests of National Resistance Movement (NRM) Chairman President Yoweri Museveni.
Otto accuses the former army commander Mugisha Muntu of
being a mole.
He also wonders why the New Formation is bent on recruiting members from the
opposition instead of canvassing for support from everybody.
He warns Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi to be careful because it is likely
he is being used. Kyagulanyi (popularly known as Bobi Wine) is the head of a
mass movement called People Power.
Mubarak Munyagwa claims that several politicians who New
Formation claim have defected have already privately repented their actions and
crossed back to the FDC.
Munyagwa lists Soroti Municipality MP Herbert Edmund Ariko and Woman MP Soroti
district Angelline Osegge as among the politicans who reaffirmed their
commitment to FDC.
It was reported in late October 2018 that a total of 63 leaders from the
biggest opposition political party Forum for Democratic Change in Ankole region
announced crossing over to Gen.Mugisha Muntu’s New Formation.
In September, Muntu said he had decided to exit the biggest opposition party
not because he was power hungry but because he felt his ideas could not
accommodated within the party as they directly crushed with those of the party
president, Patrick Amuriat.
“We fought each other to a state of paralysis within the party. We had failed
to reconcile the two different strategies and our instability as FDC would be
instability of the whole opposition,”Muntu said in reference to a situation
where he has always walked parallel lines with many other FDC members including
party president Patrick Amuriat in regards the defiance campaign started by
Dr.Kizza Besigye.
“FDC now has an opportunity to do everything they wanted to do,” he added.