As he prepares to make his big announcement, former Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LOP) Mathias Mpuuga is biting more than he can swallow, according to a politician who once held the same LOP role.
The Mpuuga big announcement is expected to be made in Kampala on Friday, December 06, with pundits saying it could alter political strategies for the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) and for the main opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) especially in Buganda where Robert Kyagulanyi thoroughly thumped Museveni’s NRM in the 2021 polls. It was the Buganda vote that helped Bobi Wine’s NUP gain enough parliamentary seats to eclipse the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) as the new main opposition party.
But along the way, Mpuuga fell out with his boss Bobi Wine and now seems to be in an attempt to chart a new forward by shedding off his old skin and appearing as the new voice that could lead Ugandans out of Museveni’s rule and catapult them to the promised land, a source within his political alliance the DP Bloc told The Pearl Times.
DP Bloc is a mostly Buganda breakaway faction of justice and constitutional affairs minister Norbert Mao. Its top leaders include Kimanya-Kabonera MP, three time presidential candidate and PDP boss Pastor Abed Bwanika, former MP Mike Mabikke and former presidential candidate Samuel Walter Lubega Mukaaku. Mukaaku and Mabikke were disappointed when Bobi Wine’s NUP refused to make them flag bearers for parliamentary contests in the 2021 elections during which a political wave saw the party’s candidates win massively in Buganda.
Mpuuga has found refuge in the DP Bloc, from which he really come before joining NUP. After Bobi Wine fired him as his party’s vice president for Buganda, Mpuuga moved to shake up things abit with an alliance with the DP Bloc.
In today’s so-called Mpuuga big announcement, he is expected to declare his 2026 presidential ambitions, a new political vehicle to push his objectives forward and a team to recruit members, sources within the group further told The Pearl Times.
But former Leader of Opposition in Parliament Morris Ogenga Latigo argues that Mpuuga should stop wasting Ugandans’ time. In an interview with NBS, Latigo argued that Mpuuga lacks national appeal as well as an enviable political and career profile because he did not shine when he was LOP. That he largely concentrated on being his political party’s leader and missed an opportunity to become a national leader. He went on to say that when he (Latigo) would attend national functions and host delegations as any national leader should do.
Latigo further opined that Mpuuga can only be president of Masaka, daring him to make his big announcement and wait to have the biggest embarrassment of his life.
Mpuuga has previously hinted on running against both Museveni and Bobi Wine, saying he can be president. But a huge burden of a Shs500m controversial award hangs in his neck, even when court seemed to absolve him (giving him a chance to tell his haters to use their heads), and Speaker Anita Among telling Ugandans’ that the MPs who steal should rule forever because they share the loot with their voters, as reported Here, There and Over There.
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