Uganda: FDC Polls - Mafabi, Ekanya, Rally Against Muntu in Masaka

18 November 2012

With the countdown, down to three days to the delegates' conference that would elect the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) new president to replace Dr Kizza Besigye, the tribal card is likely to play an integral part at the ballot.

All three candidates; Geoffrey Ekanya, Nandala-Mafabi and Mugisha Muntu used the weekend to woo the 53 party delegates in the Masaka sub-region. A week after he hosted the party's district chairpersons from Buganda in Mbale, to showcase his mobilization skills, Mafabi, according to sources, headed to Kalangala on Friday, one of the districts that he had failed to penetrate. Meanwhile, Ekanya, on Saturday, met the sub-region delegates at Laston hotel in Masaka town.

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