Museveni-Akena deal makes a case for Besigye-Mbabazi alliance in the hunt for votes
Ugandan MP Jimmy Akena at a campaign rally. PHOTO | BILL OKETCH
The recent revelation by President Yoweri Museveni that a faction of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), the country’s second-oldest political party, is on the verge of sealing an alliance with the National Resistance Movement is likely to prompt coalition between leading opposition figure Dr Kizza Besigye and former prime minister Amama Mbabazi.
While campaigning in northern Uganda’s sub-region of Lango — the remaining stronghold of the party of the late president Dr Milton Obote party — Museveni revealed that he was happy to work with the faction that is led by Lira Municipality legislator Jimmy Akena, who is Dr Obote’s son, as opposed to the one under Olara Otunnu.
