HOW AMAMA MBABAZI PLOTTED MUSEVENI DOWNFALL WITHOUT CONTIGENCY PLAN
MBABAZI WENT AHEAD TO PUT IN PLACE THREE PARALLEL STRUCTURES. THERE WAS NRM IN NRM TO WEAKEN THE PARTY FROM WITHIN; TDA GO FORWARD – TO RECRUIT OPPOSITION LEADERS; AND ANOTHER HEADED BY LENINA MBABAZI TO HANDLEVOLUNTEERS. SO WHEN JANET MUSEVENI RANG SSEKITOLEKO ON THAT LATE NOVEMBER AFTERNOON, THE CAMEL’S BACK WAS BROKEN One sunny afternoon in late November 2015, the leaders of the presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi’s Go Forward Secretariat were asking for light drinks at a nightspot in Bukoto, Kampala when a private phone rang. First Lady Janet Museveni was on the line. She urgently wanted to speak to Ronald Tumwiine Ssekitoleko, the overall campaign coordinator and chief strategist of Mbabazi’s carefully planned campaign to take power from his former friend and close ally President Museveni. Janet was at Nakasero State Lodge. She asked to meet Ssekitoleko for talks. It’s this phone call that marked the beginning of the collapse of the Go Forward campaign structur...