Museveni’s glee as opposition party stalwarts rip it apart

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FDC Supporters in Kampala, Uganda waiting for their flag bearer Patrick Oboi Amuriat during the presidential nominations. PHOTO | NMG

Ugandans may debate who the next president will be after Yoweri Museveni, who has been in charge for 40 years. But one thing the veteran leader has perfected in the past four decades is inviting his opponents to implode.

And so it seems a divided opposition is easier to conquer, at least in Uganda where leaders of the country’s once biggest opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), this week shredded each other in public, exposing deep mistrust, lack of campaign support in the previous General Election and dubious sources of money which some claim came from the state.