Following the death of Mathias Nsubuga who died last year, disagreements have erupted between the Democratic Party youth wing Uganda young democrats (UYD) and their president Norbert Mao, threatening to tear apart Uganda’s oldest political party.
The confusion is over Mr. Mao’s pick of Acting Secretary General to replace the late Nsubuga.
The erratic youth brigade on Wednesday organized a press briefing at Johnson streets in Kampala UYD Secretary General Mr Charles Wasswa where they condemned President Mao’s appointment of Mr Gerald Siranda as ‘incompetent’.
As a result, the UYD has embarked on a program to compile a petition for the convening of DP’s National Council and forge a way forward regarding new pronouncements of an SG with renowned politicians like; Dr Lulume Bayiga, Brenda Nabukenya, Mathais Mpuga and former deputy Secretary General Vicent Mayanja being fronted for the job.
“Mr Gerald Siranda is not capable of taking that position even if he is the Deputy Secretary General there are many party members we have consulted who are capable,” UYD leader Wasswa told TheUgandan.
Mr Wasswa insists that Siranda should wait until the National Council is consulted warning Norbert Mao not to take the party for a ride yet he has just sixty days to vacate his office.
He said: “Mao feels that him and him alone can exclusively decide who should serve as Acting Secretary General, a decision he says even organs of the party like NC are inadequate to make because it is an electoral college.”
“Mao is not everything in Democratic Party neither do his views represent what the party must follow by hook or by crook.”
“He has bestowed onto himself all manners of the shadow titles to the extent that he now believes that he is the prime law under which the DP constitution must confirm.”
After his appointment on December 27, 2016 , Siranda appreciated the work by his late boss and promised to work in collaboration with all party members and leaders to further the projects and work of the late Mathias Nsubuga.
“We have been working together; I have been deputizing him at all fronts including at the Interparty Organization for Dialogue (IPOD) where he has been serving as a Chairman,” Siranda said.
Siranda noted that in the late Nsubuga left a lot of unfinished business on the table which he feels should be first accomplished before engaging into filling his vacant seat.
The Democratic Party had no comment to make, while Mao could not be reached.
