Part II: How Museveni used Obote to defeat Ssemo
- Written by BAKER BATTE

Yoweri Museveni
Former Democratic Party (DP) leader, Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere, was perhaps President Museveni’s first direct and most credible political rival in the post-bush war era presidential election in 1996.
Ssemogerere had been part of the broad-based government experiment; initially sitting in cabinet variously as Internal Affairs minister, and then Foreign Affairs minister. But he was reportedly constantly under attack from regime insiders.
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