Former FDC president Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu who broke ranks with the powerful opposition party on Tuesday has Thursday come out to explain at length what compelled him to leave an establishment he was been serving for over 14 years.
Muntu, speaking at a press conference at Hotel Africana said his decision arises from the failure to reconcile two political approaches in the FDC.
Flanked by a number of FDC top shots including Members of Parliament of diifernt political affiliations, Muntu brushed off those peddling ‘lies’ that he sought to leave the party after he miserably lost election in November 2017 to Patrick Amuriat Oboi.
To Muntu, even when he was re-elected as FDC president, this couldn’t seal the cracks between two wings; the moderates who subscribe to grass root mobilisation and the radical faction allied to activism.
“Even when I won election the fight would still be on,” Muntu said.
He added that the current party leader Amuriat aka POA has the opportunity to serve the party without any impediment unlike him whose tenure was marred with bickering.
He narrated the turbulence he went through in trying to create cohesion within the party and how his leadership faced rough times as he was undermined, abused and rubbished by those opposed to his method of rule.
Muntu further said that if he remained in FDC as he had been advised by a section of his supporters the party would have met a paralysis, “Now that we are not, it is time for the party to move forward because the FDC had become a destabilising factor to the entire opposition.”
Muntu revealed that he has on several occasions met and told FDC president POA that his stay at Najjanankumbi wouldn’t solve but rather worsen the paralysis.
It is at this point that he advised POA and his administration to first “calm down and accept the shock that we have left the party but also convene a retreat to discuss forward.”
He advised that certainly FDC needs to rebrand so that POA can fully consolidate his leadership and achieve the aspirations of the party- to cause regime change in Uganda.
