Abed Bwanika questions Rubongoya loyalty over old NRM ties

Rubongoya should quit NUP leadership, Abed Bwanika demands as accusations embolden

The Member of Parliament for Kimanya Kabonera County, Dr Abed Bwanika has called for the resignation of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) Secretary General Lewis David Rubongoya citing that the former National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporter is not loyal.

Bwanika was speaking on CBS Radio when he made the statements, urging that the current struggles of the party are an architectural hand of Rubongoya, whom he accuses of serving President Museveni’s interests.

According to Bwanika, Rubongoya’s education was sponsored by President Museveni and his first Job was a secondment by the same, he therefore does not believe that Rubongoya all of a sudden now is against the same system that made him.

“If I took my child to school and ensured he graduates with a master's, would you believe me if I gave up the same child to fight me?” he posed.

Bwanika insists that Rubongoya was not part of the initial team that made the NUP, but all of sudden, he was given a position much to the dismay and surprise of most people.

He claims that on many occasions he sought the audience of the Party President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine to protest Rubongoya’s inclusion in the party leadership but Bobi Wine brushed him off.

Bwanika also accuses the Party Treasurer, Benjamin Katana of being a mole-like Rubongoya, and wants both people alongside two others to step down with immediate effect.

“If we still want a good NUP, the Secretary-General should resign and allow us to repair our party,” he said.

 

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NUP’s Rubongoya in 2021 clarified his relationship with President Museveni, saying that the two fell out over the age limit.

"I was a supporter and admirer [of Museveni] like other people who look up to him and over a long time he was my role model. He was someone that I looked up to. First of all, with more education, you begin understanding a few more things about society and how it is governed," he said during NBS TV's popular Face-off show.

"The last point of my departure is when the talk of age limit started, removing the age limit from the Constitution for me that was it.The question is about longevity in power and many Ugandans would tell you that they want Gen Museveni to leave power peacefully so that this country gets a new consensus," he said.

Meanwhile Rubongoya’s colleague Benjamin Katana was very active in NRM structures until the Age Limit debacle when he and other NRM members started a pressure group to stop the removal of the age limit.