Twenty two FDC legislators attached to Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu’s camp have agreed to withdraw their monthly donation of shs 500000 to the party.
According to an inside source in the moderates’faction, the MPs will instead channel the money to facilitate a new pressure group in the offing.
FDC passed a guideline for all its lawmakers to contribute shs 500000 as a means of attracting funds to run the party activities.
This development comes high on heels of threats issued by Muntu that he could reconsider his membership in FDC which has since threatened the future of the powerful opposition party.
Muntu hinted on leaving the party after he was defeated in last week’s polls in which he sought a reelection.
He lost to Patrick Oboi Amuriat (POA) who had concrete backing of FDC founder Col Kizza Besigye.
Muntu, unequivocally told the highest decision making organ of FDC- Delegates’ Conference that he was disappointed that most people in the party deemed him a mole.
Adding that he and the new president have irreconcilable difference.
Against this backdrop, his supporters including MPs have expressed fears that the establishment is headed for a disintegration.
The chief campaigner of Muntu who is also the opposition chief whip in Parliament Hon Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda on Tuesday denied knowledge of the above decision of halting party contribution.
He told TrumpetNews, ” Everything that we shall do we shall announce after consultations as people who believe in a certain brand of politics.”
Ssemujju said that as moderates they have made it known to FDC that institutional building is the brand of politics they believe in.
He confirmed that his candidate Gen Muntu will Wednesday address the media at Africana Hotel in Kampala to announce his next course of action.
Muntu was slated to address a news conference on Tuesday as reported by this website but he postponed to Wednesday.
