The founding president of the National Unity, Recociliation and Development Platform – NURDP, Moses Nkonge Kibalama, which later cropped into the National Unity Platform(NUP), has written to the Electoral Commission notifying them of his move to dissolve the party leadership after parting ways with Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the NUP leader.
In 2020, Kibalama had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the People Power Movement leadership led by Kyagulanyi in which he handed over the party to them and consequently the latter was appointed the NUP leader.
However, in a July 22, 2021 letter to the Electoral Commission chairman, Kibalama says that whereas he has written to the NUP leadership over including his members in the NUP leadership, the reciepients allegedly ignored his pleas, forcing him to end ties with Kyagulanyi and his group.
Though his lawyers of MS Mugabi and Shyaka & Co. Advocates, Kibalama seeks permission from the Electoral Commission to create an interim leadership of the National Unity Platform to steer the party forward and organize a delegates conference to elect the new party leadership.
