The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has already felt the ‘political vacuum’ following the departure of its former president, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu.
Muntu made a pronouncement last week that he had decided to part ways with FDC which he joined 14 years ago following a contestation of two political methods which had since paralysed not only FDC but opposition as a whole.
Sitting at Hotel Africana last Thursday to declare his next course of action, Muntu, a known principled and humble leader acknowledged that he was unlucky that his leadership mechanisms weren’t embraced in the FDC, therefore staying and fighting from within could intensify the turbulence.
He advised the largest opposition establishment to rebrand.
On Monday, the party spokesperson Hon. Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda while addressing the press at the head offices in Najjanankumbi said the party misses and will continue missing Muntu and several other bigwigs who left.
A number of party officials who had been occupying committee position threw in the towel.
Other MPs loyal to Muntu are expected to make a pronouncement in the next general elections.
“We will miss Muntu, we will miss all the others. We can only ask all the FDC leaders to be decent enough, if you are no longer part of FDC please let us know there are other people who want to fill those positions,” Mr. Ssemujju said.
Ssemujju is also attached to Team-Muntu despite holding crucial slots as opposition chief whip and publicist.
He is among those MPs that threatened to quit in November after a hotly contested presidential race in which Muntu lost to Patrick Amuriat Oboi.
“Do not stand on the fence because you will be cheating yourself and people who elected you, we do not want to have non functional offices,” Ssemujju added.
Speaking to this website last week before Muntu made his proclamation, Ssemujju said FDC is not a military facility where members don’t voice out their concerns and have a right to leave at a any point they wanted.
“FDC is not the army that you can’t leave. People in FDC have choices,” he said.
Muntu’s departure has further cracked the FDC which has opposed government for close to a decade.
Muntu, represented a number of senior FDC leaders- the moderates who vehemently opposed the extremism as the only available avenue to fight the regime.
