A government minister has dismissed as “a sham” the ruling NRM countrywide primary elections for flag bearers which flopped for a second time at the weekend.

UPC President Olara Otunnu’s rallying call for a boycott of the 2011 elections is threatening to split the party as some members are keen on participating, The Observer has learnt.

Aruu County MP, Samuel Odonga Otto has said Olara Otunnu and Norbert Mao’s decision to keep their parties, UPC and DP respectively, out of the opposition alliance, IPC, is not only betrayal of the Acholi people but will precipitate a fallout between the Acholi and the two opposition parties.

• It is a den of mafia, says MP
• Mao came in through coup
• DP can’t even field MPs in 50 constituencies
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Refugees and Disaster Preparedness minister, Tarsis Kabwegyere and minister of state for Health, Dr Richard Nduhura are two of President Museveni’s ministers that lost the race for NRM flag bearer in Saturday’s primaries.