Col. Kizza Besigye has come out strongly to indirectly announce his bid for President come 2021.
Besigye, speaking at Namboole Stadium on Monday while celebrating 15 years of FDC’s existence hit at critics who have lately piled pressure on him to retire from active politics so as to pave way for new, young and vibrant opposition leaders like Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi who leads People Power Movement.
Besigye, categorically stated that the struggle he has been in, isn’t for only liberating Uganda but also himself because he is a captive of the NRM dictatorship.
“Let me make it clear, I am not in this struggle fighting for Ugandans, I am also a victim of the bad leadership. So until I liberate myself, and the whole of Uganda is free, I won’t stop fighting,” said Besigye.
He wondered that a clique of some people has several times asked him to go, “I go where? I won’t go until there is change.”
His revelation clears air that he will stand for President for the fourth time against his long time political nemesis President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni whom he served before he broke ranks in 1999.
Besigye, has since been fighting to overthrow Museveni, making him, Uganda’s powerful opposition leader ever.