Daily Monitor
Friday February 19 2021
Summary
Mr Okodan Akwap says: Those who voted NUP. .. were angry at Museveni. Museveni is also now angry at them.
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We are still deep into the post-mortem phase of the January 14 polls. Indeed, the analytical phase of this election could last a little longer than what happened in previous times. This is largely because of the news bombshell Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, a former presidential candidate of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and leading challenger to President Museveni’s 35-year iron grip in power, unleashed in Buganda and Busoga.
The bombshell triggered a media feeding frenzy. Journalists competed to file stories about the massive win for NUP and the bloody nose NRM got. In journalism school, aspiring journalists are spoon-fed with this phrase the way newborns are breastfed: “When a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news.”