The National Unity Platform (NUP) is headed for a mega split, a move likely to reverse all the political gains and inroads it has made since 2017. Having first emerged on the political scene as People Power Movement, it later formalized as National Unity, Reconciliation and Development Party (NURP) before rebranding to NUP in 2020.
Daily Monitor
Sunday January 24 2021
Summary
With both presidential and parliamentary elections concluded, Derrick Kiyonga looks at where all the Opposition parties stand after months of electioneering.
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Derrick Kiyonga looks at where all the Opposition parties stand after months of electioneering.
FDC
When the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) honchos sit down to do a forensic analysis of the recent elections, the outcome will be straightforward: not what they wanted. For the first time since elections were organised under the multiparty dispensation, the FDC party has lost its position as the biggest Opposition political party. They lost this time to the newly formed National Unity Platform (NUP) party.
EC ban on campaigns a blessing – Opposition
January 6, 2021 Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine under police siege recently
For every dark cloud, there is a silver lining; so goes a familiar saying that seems to ring true after the recent ban on political campaigns in 20 districts and cities by the Electoral Commission.
On December 23, the Electoral Commission banned political campaigns in districts and cities with fast-rising cases of Covid-19. In three of the 20 districts where the ban was announced, the opposition has more support than the ruling National Resistance Movement.
Dr Kizza Besigye, who was the leading opponent against President Museveni in the 2016 elections, won three out of the 20 districts where the ban was announced. These are Kampala, Wakiso and Masaka. In this year’s presidential election, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the National Unity Platform candidate, is standing out in a crowded field of 10 as the