Uganda: Age Limit Debate Exposes NRM As a One-Man Party

23 October 2017
opinion

It is clear now that President Museveni is the NRM party and the NRM party is all about him and without him, there is no NRM. Here is why. In 2005, a referendum was held purportedly to establish whether Ugandans wanted a restoration of a multiparty political dispensation. This was after many years of brutalising and restricting political parties under the Movement System, which was actually a one-party rule.

Having put up a spirited fight , the Uganda People's Congress and the Democratic Party refused to participate in the referendum well aware that the Movement was too exposed to run away.

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