Uganda Opposition Vows United Front Against Museveni
Voice of America - 10 hours ago
June 24, 2014 2:08 AM
James Butty

FILE - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni arrives for the opening
ceremony of the 22nd Ordinary Session of the African Union summit in
Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said he will defeat the opposition
in 2016, even if it is united under a single candidate.
Museveni reportedly told a Jinja radio talk show Sunday the opposition
has proved to be inept and immature in its handling of critical
national issues.
A recent meeting of opposition political parties and civil society
groups resolved not to resort to violence to end Museveni rule. He has
been in power since 1986.
The Free and Fair Election Campaign in Uganda also agreed to field a
single candidate in future elections beginning with the next
byelections.
Olara Otunnu, president of the Uganda People's Congress and convener
of the meeting said, despite calls from a growing number of Ugandans
for violence, the group prefers a change of government through
democratic means.
"Even though there's tremendous frustration in the country, tremendous
bitterness, and young people in particular are saying, 'Give the guns,
don't waste time talking with Yoweri Museveni, he only understands the
language of the gun,' we have taken the position that we shall not
pursue the option of violence. Rather, we shall use the method of
positive nonviolent means in seeking to effect democratic and peaceful
change in Uganda," he said.
Otunnu said the "deep sense of frustration" created by Museveni is
widespread across Uganda. But, he said opposition parties have made a
conscious decision to demand change through the ballot box.
He said the group also resolved to speak with one voice, including
fielding a single opposition candidate in future elections.
Otunnu said the platform of the Free and Fair Election Campaign is to
demand a new electoral system in Uganda, not to reform the old system.
"Reform assumes that you are going to change that which is legitimate,
which is functioning, but which needs some corrective measures. In
this particular case in Uganda, we are talking about a system that is
wholesale fraudulent and wholesale part of the NRM (National
Resistance Movement) rigging machine.
The former leader of Uganda's main opposition party, Forum for
Democratic Change headed by perennial candidate Kizza Besigye, said he
will never again participate in any elections organized under
Museveni, where the president is both a contestant and judge.
"I've made it abundantly clear that I will never participate in any
election organized under the current regime of organizing elections,
where you have the incumbent, Mr. Museveni, being a contestant and a
judge at the same time, where you have the military and security
institutions being used to fight for the protection of the incumbent,"
Besigye said.
Besigye called for a presidential term limit because, he said, since
independence, Uganda has never had a peaceful transfer of power.
He has, in the past, said electoral reforms should include the
appointment of an independent elections commission and the removal of
the military from monitoring elections.
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