KAARO KARUNGI | KAMPALA – Top heads of the Justice Forum-JEEMA party have declined to go to a gathering with the National Unity Platform Party President Kyagulanyi Robert Ssentamu.
In his push to contact other resistance groups to concede to a route forward subsequent to losing the January 14 official political race to Yoweri Kgauta Museveni, Kyagulanyi was at the Jeema workplaces in Mengo on Thursday to meet with the top party pioneers.
Notwithstanding, to his mistake, Kateregga Muhammad, the Secretary-General was the lone high positioning authority present. Asuman Basalirwa, the gathering president and Muhammad Kibirige Mayanja, the gathering director all made flake-out.
A source who addressed URN on state of namelessness said that the gathering authority is furious with Kyagulanyi for utilizing the gathering when it fit him and afterward unloaded it.
“There isn’t anything for us to discuss with him; we worked intimately with him and when the ideal opportunity for races came he handled competitors wherever where we had an applicant. What sort of accomplice is that? He needs to work with us when there isn’t anything in question. Doubtlessly, we were in no state of mind to invite him,” the source said.
At the point when reached on the telephone regarding why he didn’t go to the gathering, Basalirwa said he had a case in the protected court that delayed more than he anticipated. “I’m simply held up at court yet on the off chance that I finish on time I will join. I have asked our Secretary-General to continue with the gathering and I figure I will go along with them later,” Basalirwa said while the gathering was in progress.
However, when the gathering that began at about 2:15 pm finished at about 4:20 pm, he had not appeared.
At the point when inquired as to why Basalirwa had not gone to the gathering, Joel Ssenyonyi, the representative of NUP supported Basalirwa explanations.
Early this week, the Forum for Democratic Change party additionally turned down Kyagulanyi’s solicitation for a gathering contending that it has no unmistakable plan. A week ago another gathering with Alliance for National Transformation additionally neglected to happen over what Ssenyonyi called before booked commitment.
For the present gathering, Ssenyonyi said it intended to beware of friends they have been together inside the battle to end President Museveni’s rule. He said since the political decision is finished, they need to sit together to diagram a route forward.
Siraje Kifampa Nsambu, Jeema Kampala District Chairman said NUP paying them a kindness call shouldn’t be amazing to anybody in light of their set of experiences of cooperating.
