After losing FDC primaries to little known Dr Warren Katoora Tumwiine, Ingrid Turinawe has cried foul saying her opponent bribed voters using the regime’s money.
Ingrid’s hopes of representing Rukungiri Municipality in Parliament were shattered after polling 65 votes while Dr Warren garnered 130 votes in the party primaries conducted in Rukungiri on Tuesday.
The belligerent opposition member has since vowed to contest as an Independent candidate in the main election next year.
While defending her decision to defy FDC guidelines and challenge the official candidate- Warren, Ingrid a close associate of Col Kizza Besigye, took to social media in a veiled statement to allege that she lost because her opponents used money from NRM.
Ingrid’s Allegations
When we are in prisons they are making money, when our businesses are being closed they are busy making money.
When we reject the juntas money, they are busy picking it.
They earn as we spend on the struggle.
When we come to seek votes, They use the same money to undermine us and bribe voters.
We are rewarded with only hatred, poverty, arrests, torture, insults etc while they are rewarded with big offices and positions.
We are fought by both the junta and our own members . Our only fault, we don’t have enough money to compete with them.
Who will protect us poor full time front line activists?
Where is Justice?
Where can we run to for safety?
We struggle and fight the junta as they sit on TV to watch news.
During elections, structures gang against us and declare us unfit because we are unable to give them Kaki envelopes.
They prefer people who pay them against us who fight for them.
We are not supposed to talk about it, pointing out the faults is bad manners, it tarnishes the party and leads to loss of membership.
Who will protect us poor full time front line activists?
What should we do?
Where can we run to?
