Photo: Ms. Doreen Keita addressing market vendors over government programs
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THE war within the leading opposition Political Party, National Unity Platform (NUP) over 2026 Party ticket, has deepened in Makindye West Constituency with the latest MP Ssewanyana-Bobi Wine deal annoying Party supporters saying, Ssewanyana is a renown traitor and mole who shouldnt be trusted!
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Angry party supporters have vowed to instead vote for NRM’s Doreen Keita, former RCC Makindye referring to her as a mother for all whose voice can easily be heard in Parliament.
NUP The party is now torn-apart in Makindye West, a number of groups created by other party card seakers to fight each other and no hopes to reunite as 2026 General election nears!
Political analysts now say, these divisions works for the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), no wonder, their aspiring candidate for Makindye West Member of Parliament Hon. Doreen Keita is scoring highly according to a latest opinion poll conducted! Opinion poll shows, Ms. Keita’s camp is eating up NUP strongholds in Makindye West, slums and ghettos are yearning for her, most youth say, they are fed up of NUP wars and bickering in the party.
In this story, we will look at how Ssewanya’s latest deal with NUP President has costed thr party and why NRM’s Keita is politically advancing.
This week, the incumbent Hon. Ssewanyana made a revealation before cameras, how former NUP Vice president Rt. Hon. Mathias Mpuuga was in charge of their arrest (Ssewanyana and Kawempe North late MP Ssegirinya).
Insiders say, Ssewanyana chose to tell lies after he was promised a party ticket in 2026 in a deal which is seriously costing NUP in Makindye West.The same card has already been promised to Makindye Mayor Al Haji Ali Nganda Kasirye Mulyanyama, KCCA Speaker Zahara Luyirika Maala, NUP Institutions leader David Musiri, Bagagga Kwagalana’s Al Haji Farouk Ntege among others.
Each of the above is in good books with Party top leadership and promised the same party ticket to run for Makindye West MP on NUP Party card. And each of the above named persons is busy soliciting for support for MP seat making them fighting each other instead of uniting their supporters and none is about to leave the race.
What shocked many, Ssewanyana who wasn’t in the puzzle and believed to have parted ways with NUP, they hear that he has entered a deal with Party top leadership to win the card again!
Whereas Ms. Doreen Keita, the former Makindye RCC is combing slums and ghettos in Makindye West for NRM, NUP leaders are busy fighting each other and their supporters are looking for an alternative. Such useless fights are making city dwellers, to trust Doreen Keita who has set her eyes to capture the constituency from NUP in 2026.
When Keita met the the locals this week from across the political divide especially NUP, she learnt that Ssewanyana’s utterances against MP Mathias Mpunga, the former Leader of opposition in Parliament, annoyed Makindye West constituents, good enough he exposed his true colours.
“Hon. Ssewanyana is an opportunist and very selfish. We cant be part of such deals he entered with our party leaders. We are tired of being used during elections and dumped thereafter. Come 2026, we will not vote for Ssewanyana or any other NUP candidate, they will pay for their sins.” Said a one Micheal Kinobe, a plumber from Katwe, a city suburb.
Angry NUP supporters in Makindye West say, after he was released from the prison, Ssewanyana distanced himself from Kavule, the NUP Party headquaters.
Infact during Kawempe North byelection, Ssewanyana supported Muhammad Luswa Alex who officially declared a war against Hon. Kyagulanyi using social media. Sources revealed how Ssewanyana was planning to contest as independent or join PFF of Dr Kizza Besigye and Lordmayor Erias Lukwago, his close allies for decades.
“Not only Ssewanyana, who is a self seeker but even those fighting hard to get the NUP ticket. This time, we want to give NRM party chance, to see whether Government will develop our area. We have poor roads, health system, unemployment and we want a bold voice which will talk about our issues in Parliament. In Ms. Doreen Keita, we trust,” noted Harriet Nakato, a second hand cloth dealer in Luwafu.
On her part, Ms. Keita, assured the city dwellers that Makindye West deserves better but it has been disappointed by elected leaders. “l was in charge of this area as deputy RCC, so, l know their performances. So, this time dont make the same mistake to vote lazy and unserious leaders,” said Keita, the deputy RDC Mpigi district. This is a developing story!
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