By Damba Rogers.
The NRM electoral commission chairman, Dr. Tang Odoi has lashed out to the party secretary-general, Hon. Kasule Lumumba, saying she is not fit for the position following her media reports downplaying plans by the party to recruit 200,000 cadres to support operation wealth creation officers at parish level.
During the
CEC meeting that sat at Kyobe lodge early this year resolved that the party
recruits cadres to support certain programmes at ground level.
But Tanga Odoi was surprised to see in the
media the Hon. Lumumba has gone against the resolution and giving her views
which contract those that were passed by the top organ of the party in the
media instead of consulting the party chairman.
He further
says, the position does not in anyway contracting the party as well as govt
programmes and operations and he then questions why Lumumba contradicts the
party.
He further
applauds the president saying he is on the right course since the programmes
are not for the party but for all ugandans.
The 200,000
support will be centered at the parish level and the chairman M7 wrote on 15th
May to Lumumba about the plans and now she is protesting them.
“ I petty
that office” says Tanga. He further notes that the president is on the right
course over the recruitment and states that people in Kisoko will start receiving
services like water, seedlings and others closer to them.
He brands some
officials in the party as weevils who are trying to bring down the party which
he will not tolerate as a CEC member.
In another
development, Tanga speaking as a historian and the academia, he confirms that
as NRM blossoms, FDC which has been the strongest opposition party is
declining, sighting a number of failed programmes by the party’s top officials.
Defiance,
people’s government, defections which have led to new party formulation are all
signs of a failing party.
He made the
remarks while announcing the party programme ahead of the Nebbi by election
party exercise starting 30th
May to June 8th 2019.
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