Flamboyant Democratic Party (DP) national Vice President Fred Mukasa Mbidde has compared his boss who is also President Museveni’s Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Norbert Mao to a bat that is why he is seeing the parliamentary speakership race upside down.
Mbidde disclosed that Mao refused to listen to their advice (him and the party Secretary General Gerald Siranda) and he insisted on contesting against Annet Anita Among for speakership.
Mbidde said that now Mao has turned into a laughing stock adding that they gave him the advice in good faith to save the political career of their comrade.
“Bats see things upside down; this is the way our brother is seeing things right now. He took a decision to contest for parliamentary speakership without consulting top party organs, this is the reason we also responding to him through public forums,” he said
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He divulged that there is no chance that President Museveni and NRM’s party’s top organ the Central Executive Committee (CEC) will shift from their early endorsement of Annet Anita Among and Thomas Tayebwa as Speaker of parliament and deputy respectively and endorse Mao who is just waving a cooperation agreement which DP signed with the NRM in a term of office that has even expired.
He boasted that with the experience he has in parliamentary elections, he is very sure that Mao will not raise more than twenty votes, and this is going to humiliate him and his DP party.
He advised him to concentrate on mobilizing political support for his DP party wondering why he is fighting to become Speakers when his party which at one time won the presidency and it was cheated currently has only six legislators.
However, Mao claims that his competitors are the ones using his party leaders to campaign against him noting that he has evidence of the receiving money to fight him.
Mao noted that he is not going to accept to be diverted from his mission of liberating parliament from what he termed as corruption.
Other sources claim that Mbidde is supporting Among on grounds that she can use her influence to help him secure a ministerial position in the coming cabinet or a juicy office in the next government.
Siranda is also accused of supporting Among because he thinks that she will help him secure the second term as a Ugandan representative in the East African parliament.
