By Spy Uganda
Kampala: Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President, Patrick Oboi Amuriat has confirmed that his party will not bow out of the struggle to have President Museveni kicked out of power and reaffirmed that FDC is fully behind Bobi Wine’s petition that seeks to overturn Museveni’s victory in the recently concluded elections.
“On Thursday, we will be talking to the European Union representatives in the country. We did speak with them prior to the elections and we told them that they were not doing enough to ensure that the dictator is brought to his knees,” Amuriat said.
Amurait further noted that EU is doing nothing in the face of brutality that was reported during the January 14, 2021 elections, adding that they have relaxed since elections were done something that has created mixed reactions among Ugandans who had a lot of exceptions from them.
“They thought that one more election would probably help us to be proved wrong, but it hasn’t because in the election of 2021 the only constant person who has been in every election was President Museveni. The rest of the candidates were all newcomers,” he said noted.
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He further pointed out that many Ugandans had hoped that the 2021 election would have brought change and freedom but that was not the case, asking the EU to respond in the face of Supreme court move to either reject or accept the victory awarded to President Museveni.
“What this election has helped us was to prove wrong even the most optimistic people and players who thought that this election would bring change,” he added.
Last week former FDC President Kizza Besigye also singled out the European Union in Uganda who had visited Bobi wine at his home accusing them of just engaging in PR instead of taking action.
“I heard this morning that a team of EU officials went to visit Bobi Wine at his home, for what?, this is not the time for visiting…this not the time for PR. It is time for action,” Besigye said.
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Besigye further noted that there are thousands of Ugandans being kidnapped, detained, tortured and killed but the EU is not doing anything about it.
“We have thousands of young people being held in dungeons in this city. Many of them have died there and their bodies dumped at mortuaries. I have spoken to many who were released from these facilities and their stories are horrifying,” Besigye added.
It’s worth noting that Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert aka Bobi Wine who petitioned the supreme court, hired the legal services of Muhammad Mbabazi who was the lead counsel in the 2016 presidential petition filed by former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi.
Mbabazi joining Bobi Wine legal team first amended Bobi Wine’s entire petition as he did in the 2016 petition of Amama Mbabazi.
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One of the grounds added in Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Petition states that Museveni was not qualified to stand in the 2021 general elections and also argue that according to the 2020 parliamentary amendments on presidential elections, which states that for anyone to stand for political office, he/she should not be working in any government organisation or body, but by the time Museveni stood for president, he was still the Commander in Chief of the armed forces and the chief finance minister facilitating the electoral process in which he was a participant and appointed his son Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba to head the Special Forces Command among other additions that are yet to be submitted to supreme court today.
