There is a silver lining at every dark cloud and this exactly is how things are turning out for ex-Kabarole woman MP Victoria Rusoke who is riding on the crisis that adventurous young man Brian Isiko’s experience has fermented for incumbent Sylivia Rwabwogo. “This Brian Isiko saga has turned into such a game changer eroding all the political capital Sylivia had accumulated during the Togikwatako days. She is now the most hated politician in Toro and the Boda riders, who were her biggest constituency, are these days shunning her like a leper. The other day she moved around their stages trying to greet them but whoever she approached ran away saying I don’t want to be arrested for stalking,” said a Fort Portal-based political pundit with whom we sourced this article. Not even the frequent visits by her flamboyant new political ally Fred Mukasa Mbidde (who always lounges out at Gardens Restaurant) can apparently save Rwabwogo from the impending political oblivion, the analyst added. Victoria Rusoke, who President Museveni sometime back posted to work at the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), has opportunistically taken advantage of this to prepare her victory speech come 2021.
The fact that the top NRM leadership has never forgiven Rwabwogo for the way she voted on Magyezi motion has only bolstered the res-urging Rusoke even more. “Rusoke is already on clandestine mobilization and the recent ruling in Mbale has caused her to work even harder realizing its just 30 months to the next election.” There is also business lady Lindah Irene who too has her eyes on the same woman MP Seat, making things even more complicated for Rwabwogo. Even at her residence in Booma, Rwabwogo these days receives fewer visitors than before as many keep sarcastically saying “you will be arrested if you dare go to her home.”
In a related development, Fort Portal MP Alex Ruhunda has come under pressure by some of his electors to abandon the NRM and seek re-election as an independent candidate affiliated to the Bobi Wine political movement. The electors claim there are indicators that NRM, whose leaders remain angry over the way he voted on the Magyezi motion late last year, doesn’t like him. One local councilor claimed that even in 2016, President Museveni fought Ruhunda through his right hand man Adolf Mwesige who is also the powerful Minister from the new Bunyangabu district that was recently curved from Kabarole. Voters like Ruhunda for his consistency in taking pro-people positions both within and outside Parliament. There is a claim, wide spread in the population, that in 2016 the ruling party undermined Ruhunda’s reelection by facilitating Go-Forward defector Steven Kaliiba with over Shs800m for his campaigns. One pro-Ruhunda councilor mockingly said: “The NRM leaders in Kampala hate our man and they have even maliciously removed him from the chair of the Trade Committee in Parliament forgetting that he is powerful enough to win even without that NRM flag. He has NGOs here and his companies have created employment for 100s of youth here. But God is always there for him to punish his foes because even Kaliiba whom they funded is now a very poor man who doesn’t possess anything valuable apart from the national ID.” The councilor insisted there is anything the pettiest of thieves can steal from Kaliiba who until a few years ago was the Muhikirwa (Prime Minister) of Toro kingdom. For comments, call, text or whatsapp us on 0703164755.
