Bobi Wine’s NUP Finally Responds to ‘Talks with Museveni’

Main opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) has spoken out on President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s readiness to hold talks with his 2021 presidential election challenger Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.

In a recent interview conducted at State House Entebbe, President Museveni told France 24 reporter Marc Perelman, Museveni said he was ready for dialogue with Bobi Wine.

But NUP leader Mathias Mpuuga has made it clear there is nothing Museveni and Kyagulanyi should hold talks or dialogue about.

Mpuuga, the leader of opposition in parliament and Nyendo-Mukungwe MP, said there was no point in Museveni waxing lyrical about his readiness for dialogue but going ahead to persecute his opponents.

“To dialogue about criminality and illegality? So you incarcerate your opponents and at the same time you invite them to negotiate about what? Their arrests? Or to do what?” wondered Mpuuga during a briefing at NUP offices in Kamwokya.

“Does he want us to go and pay for their release? Probably let him raise an invoice we shall pay.”

Mpuuga’s comments came days after NUP rejected an invitation to join the Interparty Organisation for Dialogue (Ipod).