Our consultation meetings are on course, says Mwijukye

Francis Mwijukye, the deputy treasurer of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC-Katonga faction) has insisted that their consultative meetings are on course.

While speaking to the Nile Post, Buhweju County MP Mwijukye insists all areas they have visited so far has been good with no interruptions.

He said the meetings are like their homework because the "party is almost done", suggesting that FDC Katonga faction was close to founding a new political party.

“Recently the national delegates directed us to go and do consultations and the consultations are ongoing," Mwijukye said.

"We are on course, we started in Kira, went to Jinja, we did Mbarara and today we are in Kabale and tomorrow we shall be in Rukungiri, so far so good."

The faction, led by four-time presidential candiate and former FDC president Col (Rtd) Dr Kizza Besigye, had consultative meetings with leaders from Kisoro, Rubanda, Rukiga and Kabale in Kabale.

Besides Mwijukye, other party leaders on the tour include Kabale Municipality MP Nichola Kamara, former FDC chairman Waswa Birigwa, former vice-president for eastern Salaamu Musumba, former deputy secretary general Harold Kaija, and mobiliser and former Rukungiri District Woman MP candidate Igrid Turinawe.

"We are having all the leaders from all the districts attending our meetings, all the leaders are coming," Mwijukye said.

"We have also received members who followed us like in Kabale who wanted to listen to our message. Kigezi sub-region has welcomed us meaning that we are on steady progress."

Mwijukye further revealed that through these consultation meetings, as FDC-Katonga faction, they have been able to achieve what the party asked them to do.

“We are achieving what we wished for, we are achieving what we set out to do because the consultations are going on very well thus all our questions are answered and the people in Ankole and Kigezi have spoken," he said.

"After these meetings, we shall announce to the country our next course of action."

Ms Musumba said they were still in the struggle, because "we know where we started from".

"It’s now 20 years in the struggle and we shall not give up, even [if] our comrades at Najjanakumbi betrayed us, we shall continue moving forward,” Musumaba said.

The FDC-Katonga faction consultation meetings are still ongoing nationwide and today the team is in Rukungiri as they end their tours in Kigezi sub-region.