For a long period of time, a section of FDC members loyal to the current leadership has consistently attacked Gen. Mugisha Muntu for failing to mobilise and establish formidable structures while he was party president with massive resources at his disposal.
The sentiments arise from Muntu’s excuse that his rule was undermined, fought and resources curtailed by those opposed to his political strategy.
For instance Muntu publically narrates that it took him one and half years to meet Nandala Mafabi whom he contested with for the party’s highest office in 2012.
Mafabi would later be elected the secretary general of FDC, an office that controls all the funds of the party.
At the same time the secretary general is the accounting officer of the institution.
Muntu then reasons that how could he have mobilised support and resources when he didn’t have power and will of the members as a president.
For five years while at the helm of the powerful opposition establishment, Muntu’s leadership was stifled by an internal –led iron hand, he claims.
In fact he reveals that at some point in 2015 while chairing a national executive committee (NEC) he suggested that he breaks away because was completely exhausted of pretending to be leading an institution whose aim was to take power but faced hostility.
“I was tired and exhausted. I told NEC that I was quitting,” Muntu says.
On Tuesday, when Muntu announced that he had left the party over irreconcilable differences a number of FDC officials took to several social media platforms to discredit him as very lazy and a failure.
It is against that backdrop that this website put to him on Thursday as he expounded on his course of action at Hotel Africana in Kampala to list five achievements to disprove FDC honchos who peddle ‘voluntary ignorance’ in the media.
In his response, Muntu said he had left FDC and therefore it would be of no benefit to begin highlighting what he did for the organisation.
But, he assured those who criticise him that he is proud to have participated in all democratic process in the party.
“First of all I am not campaigning to be a leader of the party to start mentioning my achievements. But one key thing is that I have participated in building FDC democratically and that the party prides in that. Because if you can’t practice internal democracy, how will you be able to do so outside the party? As I always say, you can’t give what you don’t have,” Muntu said.