Latest reporting emerging from the Tuesday CEC meeting in Entebbe indicates that though majority favor Gen MK, the current CDF, to become the next President of Uganda, some few Central Executive Committee members went on record registering their objection.
Those objecting to the automatic ascendance to Presidency by Gen MK were during the Tuesday session led by the wealthy Eastern Region Vice Chairman Calvin Echodu along with fellow tycoon Hassan Basajjabalaba.
Reporting by Chimp Reports indicates that whereas Echodu out rightly rejected Gen MK as too inexperienced for Presidency and called on Gen Museveni, his father, to stay on, the Entrepreneurs’ League Chairman HB prefers Gen Salim Saleh as a consensus candidate to succeed the clearly exhausted veteran leader from Rwakitura who has been ruling Uganda for 40 years counting from 1986, without break.
That Echodu, who has no financial destitution-related consequences to worry about since he is a very rich man married to an American, asserted that Gen MK ought to be retired from the CDF office and the military as a whole for his own good and posted to serve in civilian roles so that he learns how to relate with fellow humans without being coercive.
Echodu has previously been a target of demonization by leading social media voices in the MK universe. He was accused by Frank Mwesigye, an MK enabler, of being a bad loser who hates the Museveni family simply because he failed to become a Minister after refusing to denounce his US citizenship. The latest to go after him is Gen MK’s personal assistant David Kabanda who wants him locked out of being MP under the same Constitution that barred him from Cabinet role.
A mentor who raised and prepared Anita Among for future roles including being Speaker of Parliament, Basajjabalaba was more deferential and guarded in his reluctance to embrace the MK project than Echodu who last week stood up to the CDF while objecting to the humiliation of Afande Peter Elwelu.
He was joined by ex-PPS Kenneth Omona before the CDF added the Vice President Jessica Alupo on the list of those emboldening Afande Elwelu, who he believes is hostile to his becoming President.
On the other hand, the pro-MK lobby (which predictably will carry the day since theirs is seemingly the same side Gen Museveni wants to prevail) was epitomized at the Tuesday session by Buganda region NRM Chairman Haruna Kasolo and Kampala Special region’s Salim Uhuru. The duo eloquently articulated Gen MK’s accomplishments regarding army building and amplifying the fight against corruption.
Ironically, the anti-corruption fight for which Uhuru praised Gen MK had his very good ally Anita Among fall among the very first victims, earlier this very year. Reports indicate that Salim Uhuru, the pilao maestro, has since pivoted to embrace MK-ism in full swing.
At the Tuesday session, the duo of Uhuru and Kasolo also saluted MK for shrewdly using his PLU approach to cow the violent opposition while at the same time recreating enthusiasm among the hitherto demoralized supporters of both Gen Museveni and the National Resistance Movement. Give us feedback on this story through our email: kamwokyatimes@gmail.com
