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Bidandi 'disappointed' at third term schemers
By Richard M. Kavuma
April 2, 2003
The Minister for Local Government Jaberi Bidandi Ssali
yesterday said he is "very disappointed" that the
Movement has cleared President Yoweri Museveni to run
for a third term.
Sounding distraught, Mr Bidandi told the BBC radio
that he still hoped for a turn-around by the time the
issue goes to Parliament.
"This issue is going to be around for nearly a year.
Hopefully by that time people will have made up their
minds and may be to the contrary," he said.
Mr Bidandi was the first senior Movement leader to
call for a discussion of a post-Museveni Uganda in
November 2001.
He has since also consistently called for a return to
open multiparty politics.
The National Conference (NC) of the ruling Movement on
Monday endorsed the recommendation by the National
Executive Committee ((NEC) to open up to competitive
party politics, subject to a referendum.
However, the NC also recommended that Mr Museveni
should be allowed to run again for the presidency
after his second and last constitutional term ends in
2006.
Yesterday Mr Bidandi said that he believes Mr Museveni
is genuine but that some of the people around him were
scheming.
"1/4Definitely those people around him played the game
of scheming," Mr Bidandi said in apparent reference to
those who had engineered the "third term" resolution.
He said that the people who played the game are "very
senior people".
"The whole thing was orchestrated," he said. Mr
Bidandi lamented that most delegates at both the NC
and NEC meetings did not express their own views.
"The whole thing was wrapped in representative
memoranda," he said. "But there are so many things
taken for granted by the movers of this motion," he
said in what sounded like a veiled warning.
© 2003 The Monitor Publications
Gook We will have to repent in this generation not
merely for the vitriolic words and actions of bad
people but also for the appalling silence of good
people". M.L.King
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