By Mulengera Reporters
Saying they are not morally as clean as they claim, defeated Mawokota South MP Yusuf Nsibambi has castigated the Greater Mpigi top Catholic Church leaders, insisting that it’s them who orchestrated his defeat and not the NRM party leadership.
Nsibambi says that the area Catholic priests overtly turned against him because he is a Muslim and openly de-campaigned him in their respective parishes even after benefiting from his generosity by receiving thousands of his coffee seedlings.
He says its possible some of those Catholic priests, who kept advising him to go and stand in Butambala since he is a Muslim, could have considered poisoning him because he would interact and eat with them during community functions.
He says the Catholic priests severally summoned him to private meetings and assured him he would be a one term MP. He says they branded him “a captor [eyawamba]” who had just fluked the politics of Mawokota South, all whose MPs had until 2021 always been Catholics.
Nsibambi also blames NUP’s leaders like Bobi Wine, Francis Zzaake and Hilderman Kiyaga Mazongoto who he says made his re-election impossible when they openly de-campaigned him and incited foot soldiers (young enough to be his grand children) to go abusing him everywhere and outgoing Mpigi district Chairman Martin Ssejjemba (young enough to be his son, who he predicts is going to die of poverty and destitution) to abandon the LC5 Seat to come and stand against him.
He says he is angry not at NRM’s Susan Nakawuki but at NUP which deliberately fronted weak candidates to antagonise stronger ones like him, which resulted into NRM candidates winning not just in his Mpigi area but in other hitherto strong opposition places like Kasese. For the first time NRM won all the 6 MP seats in Kasese, something Nsibambi is blaming on the NUP-fermented confusion.
Nsibambi also had no kind words for NUP President Bobi Wine, who he claims to have personally funded during the People Power days before going on to plant the initial NUP seeds in Mpigi in the early 2020s. He says that Mr. Wine promised a lot under his so-called Protest Vote and now is the time to walk the talk instead of curiously becoming incommunicado.
“You incited people with words like Kanonye [look for the vote], Kakuume [guard the vote], Kabanje [demand for the victory in case its subverted] and that is the phase we are now on yet you are comfortably in hiding and nowhere to be seen,” Nsibambi said during a radio program where he said his good byes to elective politics.
He said he was going to now dedicate his time to family and FDC party for as long as colleagues at Najjanankumbi show they are still interested in him. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
