Uganda’s main opposition figure, Dr. Kizza Besigye has broken silence about his wife Winnie Byanyima coming out to contest for the presidency.
Dr Besigye a four-time losing opponent of President Yoweri Museveni called the whole matter ‘politics of diversions’ coming from the ruling NRM party attempting to shift the debate from the stolen 2016 elections to 2021.
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“What is happening is from the regime public relations. Since the elections in February, the overwhelming investment of the dictatorship has been to deflect people’s attention from what is happening this year,” Besigye said.
Besigye has been silent for close to a week since his wife and Oxfam International ED Byanyima announced that she was having presidential ambitions.
“That is very different from somebody making a declaration that am going to inform the country that ‘I am going to be doing this’ which is what very clearly, very deliberately has been to project it as. And that deliberate attempt I know where it is coming from.
“That very clearly will not happen to us, we won an election in 2016 and we have incontrovertible evidence to show that we won. So we shall resist attempts by the regime propaganda machine to divert us.
“All this is a deliberate attempt to shift attention to an election that may not take place. We are talking about 2016 which has not been conclusively resolved. Museveni stole the election using guns and no amount of diversion will distract us from recovering the will of the people. Period.
“But secondly, there should not be a debate on those who seek to offer leadership for this country as long as they are qualified.
