The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) interim National Executive Committee has resolved that the party will organize elections that will usher in a new leadership of the party since the interim leadership was established to direct the party for six months.
The resolutions were declared by Michael Kabaziguruka, the Acting Chief Electoral Commissioner of the FDC Katonga faction during a press conference at Katonga Road offices on Monday, October 2, 2023.
“Elections will be presided by preparations and as a party, we shall start by moving around the country to do extensive mobilization to re-orient the party supporters at the lower levels of party leadership,” Kabaziguruka said.
He said that, they will begin with the youth and women’s dialogue which will be convened on October 4, 2023, and on October 6th, a founder’s dialogue will be convened to discuss what FDC is counting the vision and mission of the party.
“Immediately after that, from October 7th to 14th November 2023, we shall begin countrywide mobilization tours. As we all know, we have twenty-one sub regions in the country where the president and his team will be touring to mobilize the party support,” he said.
Kabaziguruka revealed that, the party will commence elections at the village level, parish, sub-county, and district, from December 9, 2023-January 28, 2024, then on December 6, 2023, the National Executive Committee will nominate ten eminent persons and ten diaspora representatives.
According to Kabaziguruka, on December 12, 2023, the National Council will be convened to set the agenda of the National Delegates Conference which is set to be held on March 15, 2024.
“Concerning the special interest groups of the party which include the women, youth league, PWDs, and workers, we shall be holding delegates conferences between 6th and 9th March 20224,” he said.
Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago warned all those who wish the party peace against attending the forthcoming Delegates Conference that was announced by the party leadership at Najjanankumbi, which is scheduled on October 6, 2023.
He also appealed to Uganda security agencies, including police to respect the party’s rights to move around the country to mobilize support for the party ahead of the National Elections in 2026.
These elections will be running a parallel electoral roadmap alongside one by the FDC Najjanankumbi in which campaigns for several positions are already underway.
However, Ofono Opondo in his opinion article published by the New Vision on Monday, October 2, 2023, noted that, although the political civil war in FDC has been running for the past three years, it is still early to determine which faction will eventually prevail in both legal and political sense, stating that, FDC is now in a very an unviable position and it will be a tall order climbing out of the abyss.
