Mao: "Some praising Bobi Wine are hypocrites, don't wish him well"

The Democratic Party (DP) president general, Norbert Mao has claimed that some people surrounding the leader of the national Unity Platform Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine are not genuinely interested in his political progress.

In short, they are hypocrites.

Mao made the remarks during weekly press conference where he revealed that some politicians who prioritised their reelection at the expense of liberating the whole country during the last election limited Kyagulanyi's vision, confining him to a provincial leader as opposed to national icon.

Mao's remarks follow attacks on the DP president by sections of NUP supporters on social media.

They have often referred to him as a mole, an accusation that Mao often laughs off.

On Tuesday, Mao said the attacks are aimed at frustrating the effort to ensure that Ugandans are liberated from the hands of President Museveni.

"Let me tell you I am not fighting Hon Kyagulanyi nor his NUP party but the wolves in sheep skin. There are very many people around him and I am not going to keep quiet. I’m going to expose them continuously. They are going to be unmasked and nobody is going to stop me because I’m set for that war," he said.

Mao noted that he is a thick-skinned politician who knows a lot about the existence of ‘wolves’ who he has a duty to expose.

"I am at loggerhead with hypocrites, I am not at logger head with any organisation or any person. I am not going to be silenced. Actually I have been provoked so much, I am now on the new mission,” he said.

Mao explained that he only disagreed with Kyagulanyi on matters to do with the DP reunion.

Mao said DP invested over Shs400m in that reunion which was meant to test and deepen Kyagulanyi’s popularity all over the country as opposed to projecting him as a Buganda leader.

"I was the first to write an article about Hon Kyagulanyi. At that time none of the people that were around him even took him seriously. I wrote that this is a promising future national leader of Uganda from Buganda because his appeal was wide but then some people surrounded him and brought him back to a provincial leader. Those hypocrites are meal card politician’s that I talk about," Mao said.

Mao said on the eve of 2021 general elections he sensed regime change and was determined to prepare Kyagulanyi as the mobilisation glue that would unite millions of ‘genuinely’ aggrieved Ugandans to finally overcome President Museveni.

Mao said that the unity that was being cemented between him and Kyagulanyi frightened elderly veteran politicians in DP who had always been antagonistic to him as party president, adding that such political opportunists feared their alliance would front new politicians to run for their MP positions.

"They told him you see you stand no chance against Museveni in elections, so there was a lot of confusion. Eventually they launched NUP. When NUP was launched I called Hon Kyagulanyi and said now can we form the people power alliance? That conversation was also sabotaged by the meal card politicians so you can understand my disappointment," Mao said.