Nile Post Poll: 51% say Gen Muntu was right to walk away from FDC

At least 51 % of respondents in a snap poll conducted by The Nile Post have backed Gen Mugisha Muntu's decision to leave FDC and form a new party.

According to results of the online poll which was conducted last month, 47% disagreed with Muntu's move while roughly 1% said they were not sure whether or not Muntu had made the right move. A total of 6266 people responded to the poll.

In a poll, we asked the question: Was Mugisha Muntu right to walk away from FDC?

In September, Muntu said he had decided to exit the biggest opposition party not because he was power hungry but because he felt his ideas could not accommodated within the party as they directly crushed with those of the party president, Patrick Amuriat.

“We fought each other to a state of paralysis within the party. We had failed to reconcile the two different strategies and our instability as FDC would be instability of the whole opposition,”Muntu said in reference to a situation where he has always walked parallel lines with many other FDC members including party president Patrick Amuriat in regards the defiance campaign started by Dr.Kizza Besigye.

“FDC now has an opportunity to do everything they wanted to do,” he added.

The function to announce the formation of a new movement was graced by several opposition politicians, NRM supporters and independents.

These included: Gerald Karuhanga(Independent), Paul Mwiru,(FDC) Anna Adeke(Independent), Elijah Okupa(FDC),Angelina Osege(FDC),Simon Oyet(FDC), Herbert Ariku(FDC),Winnie Kiiza(FDC), Gafa Mbwatekamwa(NRM) and John Baptist Nambeshe(NRM).

“We hope for a leadership that is focused on turning around the country and causing real political change with democratic dividends,” Karuhanga said then.

Since then Muntu has embarked on a recruitment spree which targets 20,000 members before December 25 when the new party will officially be unveiled.