Among a long list of questions about what President Museveni’s next four years of his fifth term will look like, many voters are wondering how the his fiercest opponent Dr Kizza Besigye will carry himself while for the 2021 election. But according to Besigye, his presidential ambition is one thing he’s prepared to dial back on.
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“Many people are attacking me and telling me to step down for others to come as FDC party candidates. But let me tell you that I am going nowhere,” Besigye said after attending a requiem mass for Hon Matiya Nsubuga.
“The struggle is still on until President Museveni is gone then I will go back to the village and rest,” revealed Besigye, the founding president of Uganda’s leading opposition political party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), and a four-time presidential candidate.
“I started the struggle and as long as I am still living, the struggle will continue. No turning back and those who think I will go now should forget.
With Winnie Byanyima serving up the possibility of challenging President Museveni and/or the NRM in 2021, Ugandan opposition politics was about to change fundamentally but not by her husband Besigye’s latest revelations who is well bent on not relinquishing the political spotlight to his wife if she eventually decides to take her first shot at the presidency in 2021.
Yet Besigye and his activists keep accusing Mr. Museveni of pursuing a life presidency, a charge he has consistently dismissed.
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