NRM Crisis: MP Okot Dares Mbabazi At Entebbe Caucus The embattled Secretary General for the ruling National Resistance Movement party, Amama Mbabazi, bitterly clashed with the Dokolo Country Member of Parliament, Felix Okot Ogong, at the party’s Caucus on Monday at State House Entebbe. Premier Amama Mbabazi Sources who attended the heated Monday meeting say Mbabazi, who abundantly utilised the absence of the Party Chairman, President Yoweri Museveni who was in South Africa, raised a technicality to quash the Kyankwanzi resolutions which fronted the latter as the sole candidate for the ruling party in the coming 2016 general elections. As expected, most of the Caucus members where Museveni enjoys over 90 percent rejected Mbabazi’s view and booed him down. But it took a different twist between the Kanungu man and the former Minister of Children’s Affairs; Okot Ogong who also attempted to stand against Museveni in the 2005 NRM National Delegates Conference, as the two nearly engaged each other in an unarmed combat. After everybody else had finished, Ogong who was seated in the middle row, stood up, took control of the nearest microphone and asked Mbabazi if he remembers the same caucus in 2005 when he barred and frustrated everyone from standing against President Museveni. “Why are you changing your position this time?” queried the legislator. Mr. Mbabazi just refresh your memory to 2005 caucus just days to the National Delegates Conference and judge yourself before us. You are the same man who opposed, rejected and frustrated my ideal of leading the party in 2006 general elections. You said then that the President had overwhelming support and there was no need for another party member to try standing. Now the same President is having more support than before, we shall not listen to you and the caucus resolutions stand, Ogong told off the Premier point blank, receiving a standing ovation from the caucus members. Okot Ogong further noted that Mbabazi’s new stance was a double standard that should not be tolerated in the party. When contacted on phone, he confirmed and affirmed that they shall not allow Mbabazi to change Kyankwanzi resolutions. Mbabazi, after Okot Ogong’s attack, tried his best to use the same tone but was heckled by members and eventually the caucus was abruptly closed and postponed to next week when the Party Chairman is expected to be present.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:36:23 +0000
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