They told journalists at Freedom Gardens in Mbarara municipality that they decided to quit FDC after realising that the current leadership is not committed to strengthening party structures and visibility.
Those who have quit include Daniel Kafureka, the general secretary for Mbarara district, Mweteise Bintabara, FDC chairperson for Kiruhura district, and a number of leaders from the districts of Kiruhura, Isingiro, Ntungamo, Ibanda, Sheema, Mitooma, Rubirizi, Bushenyi and Buhweju districts.
Kafureka said that FDC has deviated from its core values, putting defiance against making FDC a stronger party at the grassroots.
Bintabara who has been the Kiruhura district FDC chairperson says that the failure by the party accommodate views that go beyond defiance has prompted them to quit. He says that the group of leaders will be joining Gen Mugisha Muntu who quit FDC in September citing irreconcilable differences.
Mbarara district FDC president Stanley Katembeya wished those leaving well, saying that the party leadership hasn't has done anything wrong for fronting the defiance strategy.
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The fall of a region's president-sons has [What?] consequences, our History says. Ask the Northerners].
Sorry I wanted to mean Amuriat Besigye is no longer the party Presido.
This hullabaloo will soon fade away and the media which has of late been inclined to market the new formation will be disillusioned.
However, my concern is the PP camp, that Muntu is hobnobbing with is as radical as, if not worse than, the FDC defiance camp.
Now he is targetting this up coming politician of kyadondo,
FDC is alot stronger and bigger than Muntu
He should show what he did in the 7 years, about the structures he claims to be good at putting up at grassroot level
If you read tea leaves, who is bankrolling Muntu's treachery and mischief?
Never mind what they do, for they went to the bush to destroy the country and remain kings of kings.
What have you not observed so far? All those who have left FDC come from the greater Ankole- the very people who are bringing the country to her knees; who are arresting, torturing and killing at will. Tell me, which part of the country has not suffered being sacrificed if not their own?
They took over power so as to enslave the rest of the country only to work for them. Who owns Uganda today if not their sons and daughters.
They simply fear that the opposition takes over power tomorrow and starts a program that will render them pay back what they stole.
They now fear for their lives and what they stole from Ugandans- that is why they want Museveni in power for life!!!