The Forum for Democratic Change-FDC Katonga faction has cautioned party members in different parts of the country against participation in the FDC internal party leadership elections, stating that they are sham.
According to Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, the Spokesperson of FDC, all party leaders and members should not participate in the fake leadership elections or allow them to take place in different areas of the country.
“We leaders of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) would like to disassociate ourselves with the ongoing sham and fraudulent internal party leadership election exercise supervised directly by Mr. Nathan Nandala Mafabi and Mr. Patrick Oboi Amuriat,” Ssemujju said.
He made the remarks during the FDC press conference held on Thursday, August 3, 2023, at Fairway Hotel in Kampala, which was attended by some FDC leaders including Erias Lukwago, Doreen Nyanjura, Proscovia Salaamu Musumba, and Mubarak Munyagwa, among others.
According to Ssemujju, the Amuriat and Mafabi elections are in violation of the June 16, 2023, 239th National Executive Committee’s (NEC) decision because NEC ordered for a halt of internal elections until all matters that are splitting the party are resolved.
In the FDC press release, the Katonga faction demanded that, before internal elections are organized, a transparent register of all FDC members be compiled, Toterebuka Bamwenda’s Electoral Commission be disbanded, and NEC is immediately convened to consider the budget for election, among others.
“Nandala, Amuriat and any other party leaders who intended to participate in the election as candidates, step aside and an interim leadership is constituted to steer the party up to the next delegates’ conference,” the statement read in part.
This comes after the FDC Chairperson, Ambassador Wasswa Birigwa announced the postponement of the party internal elections to a date that will be communicated by the Electoral Commission.
Birigwa said that, he received numerous complaints of lack of preparedness and competency of their electoral management from across the country.
However, according to the Electoral roadmap released in July 2023, the party’s Electoral Commission Chief, Wilberforce Toterebuka Bamwenda, the election of leaders from the grassroots to the national level was set to start on July 21, 2023, to September 1, 2023, in 71,230 villages, 10,595 parishes, 211 sub-counties, and 353 constituencies of the country.
