Kampala — Ugandans are generally satisfied with the way President Museveni has led the country but almost seven out of every 10 citizens say he should not seek re-election in 2011, a new Daily Monitor poll reveals.
Sixty-seven per cent of the respondents said they were either "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with the way Mr Museveni had led the country. However, asked whether President Museveni should stand for re-election next year, 68 per cent said "no".
The opinion poll was commissioned by Daily Monitor and the Deepening Democracy Programme and conducted countrywide between April 19 and May 6 by TNS/Research International, an independent global research company.
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Any one who overstays in power too long becomes complacent and arrogant. Having run out of ideas the overstayee President becomes a "joke" only opportunistic sycophants delude themselves and others that the incumbent has any more ideas to offer. The ordinary person is not stupid and cynically do not believe in what a leader who does not want to quit when time is up has to say. The debacle in Mukono North is a good example of how the voters can punish and humiliate a President who does not want to quit and pokes his nose in the smallest of matters making them worse. The lesson from this is that an incumbent who has gone from love to scorn is just buying time.If anybody wants to have an enduring legacy they should know when to pack it in!!