Jinja East legislator Hon Paul Mwiru has said the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party is full of blackmailers particularly the extremists who think their political approach is the best under the sun.
Mwiru, a loyalist attached to the minority moderates was forced to defect to Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) on Tuesday to join his former president Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu, the founder.
Muntu formed ANT last year after quitting FDC in 2018.
“We disagreed on strategy, our colleagues thought defiance was the best method, we proposed both methods including building party,” said Mwiru Wednesday while speaking to NBSTV on what prompted him to leave FD.
Mwiru added that they were tired of living in blackmail.
“We have decided to leave them continue with their method of blackmail and the like,” he said.
The moderates in FDC subscribed to building structures at the grass root while the extremists believed in activism and engaging in street battles with the regime’s security apparatus.
At a time, he was president (2012- 2017) Gen. Muntu failed to consolidate his leadership, faced immense hostility from the radical wing and as a result he quit the party due to irreconcilable difference shortly after he was defeated when he sought a reelection in FDC.
His successor, Patrick Oboi Amuriat is loyalist of Kizza Besigye, the founder of FDC who until today influences the party’s political direction.
Muntu on several occasions clashed with Besigye on which approach should be used by FDC. Muntu and his faction agreed to swing the grass root mobilization behind Beisgye’s extremism, but still the radicals could allow to accommodate Muntu and his group.
Therefore, it wouldn’t be a surprise if more FDC MPs come out to join Gen Mugisha Muntu’s ANT.
