Dear UAH,
You ask to be educated on why FDC, UPC, DP, CP, indeed all the opposition parties combined, are a spent force. Yes, the opposition, combined, are a spent force because, they are politically short sighted. They are led by, immature politicians. Yet they are facing an accomplished group of politicians in the names of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, NRM who have spent their time, indeed many years, studyuing the abc of politics.
On the other hand opposition politicians are politically immature people who have no ability to know how to plan to win an election. While the opposition plans their political strategy on the spot, Museveni plans his strategy many years in advance.
As a result, the 2011 Presidential and general elections are already won by the NRM/Movement party. This is so for the following reasons;
President Mseven and his NRM machinery possess 100 tricks to employ to win the 2011 presidential and general elections. So far they have employed only about three of these, the most lethal trick is,
INTIMIDATION AND CREATION OF FEAR IN THE POPULATION.
This weapon alone secures the NRM 50 percent of the election even before voting begins. Hence by the time the opposition goes into an election they are already 50 per cent behind.
POLITICAL PATRONAGE
This is another lethal weapon NRM uses.The NRM machinery has activated this weapon from the day they got Government machinery in their hands in 1986. Today virtually all District Admninistrations from top to bottom, are in NRM hands. Those district administrators who are anti-NRM cannot openly express their feelings. They are scred stiff.Hence, the District machinery , plus all the over 200 RDCs, are all already positioned to firstly persuade voters, and if persuation fails, to create fear amongst the electorate and to dupe them with some benefits.
NRM HAS THE FINANCIAL MUSCLE.
There is a saying in the USA which goes, When President J. F. Kannedy was campaigning for he presidentcy a reporter asked him, What is the most important thing a politician aspiring to win an election must have, he answered, ‘MONEY’.
Question No 2, WHAT IS THE MOST INFLUENCTIAL WEAPON IN POLITICS, he answered , ‘MONEY.’
Question3, ,WHAT WILL YOU DO TO WIN THE ELECTION, he said, I MUST HAVE MONEY.
Now, my dear Ugandans, you are answered; THE FDC, DP, UPC, CP, are already a spent force, they are already defeated in the 2011 presidenti and general elections UNLESSS THEY CAN FIND A SOLUTION TO THE ABOVE WEAPONS AND TRICKS WHICH THE NRM HAS IN ABUNDANCE.
No doubt the three weopns, INTIMIDATION, FEAR, DISHONEST USE OF POLITICAL PATRONAGE, MONEY, violate people’s human rights. If we were living under a Government that strictly follows the rule of law and order, NRM leadership should be prosecuted in a court of law for abuse of office which in some cocuntries is punishable by death.
Henry Ford Miirima
