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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