By Mulengera Reporters
When he unveiled Kilak North County MP Anthony Akol to the President during the NRM caucus session not very long ago, Government Chief Whip Hamson Obua thought he was scoring political points and portraying himself to the big man from Rwakitura as an effective mobiliser working towards total obliteration of opposition in Uganda.
Little did he know that the gigantic man he had just lured from the life of scarcity that characterizes FDC into the world of plenty that is NRM, and is famous for punching fellow MP Francis Zzake into near coma point, would sooner than later turn his guns onto him.
Barely three months into the ruling party, the bulky Akol (whose dirty secrets were recently leaked on CBS by fellow MP Gilbert Olanyah) has declared interest in becoming the next NRM chairperson for Northern Uganda. This makes him the ruling party’s CEC representative for the entire Northern Uganda.
This same position was previously occupied by Jacob Oulanyah and since his death in March 2022, Obua has been marketing himself as the most suitable replacement. And indeed, consensus has gradually been emerging at least among his Langi co-ethnics that he indeed deserves it.
Akol says he is now a fully-fledged member of NRM with equal rights as Obua and all the other members. He says he has consulted widely and been encouraged to take it up. He says he needs such a position to empower himself to mobilize for the ruling party like never before.
Renowned for his bellicose approach, Akol says no one can stop him from exercising his right to vie for any position inside his new party. He is the same man who famously threw physical punches on Zzake sometime back during a session of Parliament.
Akol says he won’t be intimidated by the fact that several other more senior and longer-serving NRM cadres have their eyes too on that same CEC position.
These include Sam Engola who was the pioneer cadre in Lango to embrace and market NRM/Museveni even at the time it was considered suicidal (those days the UPCs used to win in Lango unopposed); ex-EALA Speaker Dan Kidega (a brother to Mao who is also the Makerere Governing Council Vice Chairman) and Kole Woman MP Judith Alyek who is currently the chairperson of Lango Parliamentary Group.
Minister Beatrice Anywar from Kitgum, who is an Acholi and previously belonged to FDC just like Akol, is equally menacingly eyeing the same CEC Seat. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
