Bobi Wine Blames Hoima By-election Loss on Opposition Infighting

Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi has accused members within the opposition for fighting  Ms Asinasi Nyakato after she identified herself with People Power in the Hoima Woman MP by-election.

Mr Kyagulanyi said forces in the opposition frustrated Nyakato yet she was sponsored by the Forum for Democratic Change.

This comes after NRM’s Harriet Businge beat Asinansi Nyakato, a joint opposition candidate by over 4,000 votes. NRM’s Businge garnered 33,301 votes against Nyakato’s 28,789 votes.

Bobi Wine released a statement in which he said that there are "those who have decided at every point to put their personal or party interests above the interests of the people of Uganda. We condemn this behavior and moving forward, we must have discussions and decide what is more important."

He noted that as People Power, they joined in to support an FDC candidate because they ‘place the struggle for a better Uganda above anything else.’

“It defeated all logic to see some leaders, apparently, in the opposition, do everything to frustrate comrade Nyakato’s victory simply because she embraced and identified with People Power,” Bobi Wine posted on his Facebook page.

On Tuesday this week, Bobi Wine was in Hoima where he campaigned for the FDC candidate, urging her to fully represent ‘People Power’ when she gets to Parliament.

At the last opposition rally in Hoima on Tuesday, the FDC President Patrick Amuriat Oboi survived being beaten by angry People Power supporters who did not want him to address the rally.

According to sources, Bobi Wine and his group wanted to take credit for the victory in the Hoima woman MP by-election in case it had happened. 

Meanwhile, President Yoweri Museveni has thanked the people of Hoima and Kaabong districts for voting the National Resistance Movement in the Woman MP by-elections that happened on Thursday.

Mr Museveni who is the NRM national chairman noted that despite the lies and propaganda by opposition members, the people still voted the NRM candidates.

"The people of Hoima, mwebale muno, thank you for voting the National Resistance Movement, and my daughter Harriet Mugenyi. You have chosen to consolidate the NRM achievements, by voting a pro-development MP," Mr Museveni posted on his Facebook page.

Mr Museveni added: "Our people of Kaabong, Alakara nooi, you have shown that even with the lies from the Opposition, you know where the light is. I congratulate My daughter Tubo Christine Nakwang for winning the woman MP by-election."

He continued: "I also congratulate the NRM structures in the two districts for doing a good job and delivering these victories. The NRM is stronger than ever and its vision is correct."

In Kaabong NRM’s Christine Tubo Nakwang trounced FDC’s Judith Nalibe Adyaka.