Uganda: Will Besigye Exit From Party Presidency Weaken FDC?

THE Sunday Vision has asked whether FDC will be a weaker or stronger party without Kizza Besigye. It is a question that ordinarily only either the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leaders or their most ardent supporters can accurately answer.

Besigye's initial objective in 1999, when he fell out with the mainstream Movement to launch his Reform Agenda (RA), was to "rid" Uganda of Yoweri Museveni and the Movement. But honestly, even with some of the current mistakes of the NRM, not well attended to, FDC, with or without Besigye, is a very short-term project in Uganda's political future.

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