Today, a veteran Journalist Andrew Mwenda joined National Unity Platform (NUP), a political Party owned by Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.
The print, radio and television journalist was registered earlier today and picked nomination forms to stand against Bobi Wine. He said he wants to stand against him and defeat him for the party flag bearer in the Presidential race.
“NUP after all are not as radical as I previously thought, I visited their head office, registered as a member, then picked forms to become Presidential candidate. I found Bobi Wine, like Kaguta Museveni, was being treated as the sole Presidential candidate for the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Party.” He tweeted
It all started during the NBS TV’s Round table show when Mwenda said he can all join the party in bid to challenge Bobi who refers to as an extremist in the race for the party Presidential flag bearer .
Mwenda who has been in and out the state house meeting President Yoweri Museveni, has always said that People Power (NUP) has limited possibilities for growth because it lacks what in marketing is called ‘product differentiation’ from its origin, Defiance.
On 18 August 2018 after the arrest and torture of Bobi Wine in Arua, the former political editor of The Daily Monitor labeled Bobi Wine as radical extremist who has no vision for the Country.
“Ugandans who believe in liberal values need to expose Bobi Wine’s radical extremism and his blind pursuit of power without any values underpinning it. His politics of mobilizing popular anger without organizing it is a danger to our country. His lack of an alternative policy vision only adds to the disaster I am sure he would create if he and his radical extremists got power.” He said
“I am also aware that if Bobi Wine and his radical extremists captured power they would not allow me the freedom to criticize them. He and his supporters don’t stand for anything. They stand against Museveni. They are an intolerant and uncouth group seeking power to settle scores with their opponents.”
“It is absurd radical extremists of defiance and it’s bastard child, people power, are claiming the government has stifled them Yet they are free on social media indulging in unrestrained cyber bullying and on streets thru physical intimidation of opponents,” he tweeted earlier this month.
“Defiance and people power are hilarity fascist groups that should be suppressed if we are to stop the equivalent of nazis taking over power in Uganda. They won’t stop their cyber bullying and street violence unless and until they are stopped,” he tweeted on 3rd August 2020.
