By Isaac Wandubile
In a Friday interview with Mulengera News, Musa Mbaziira the newly elected Rubaga Division Speaker the NRM sponsored, said this among other things: “NUP should own up and accept their defeat for Rubaga Speakership, and stop blaming NRM, because they fronted a very weak candidate [Rehema Ffuge]. It’s them who had money and took 45 Councilors to Bweyogerere in a hotel where they spent the entire night getting drunk. I used persuasion to get Councilors’ votes and we, an NRM, never gave anyone money like NUP did.”
The miracle-performing cadre, who made history winning in a council where NUP has 64 councilors against NRM’s mere 11, also asserted that he was confident nobody in NUP can maliciously leverage on the nascent opposition party’s numerical strength to champion impeachment proceedings against him as Speaker. In a live-streamed Facebook interview, the youthful NRM cadre also didn’t spare the Rubaga Division Mayor Zachary Mawula Mberaze.
Musa Mukasa, who represents Kabowa parish on the Rubaga Division Council, asserted that the NUP Councilors should be commended for appreciating and endorsing his personal capabilities as opposed to blindly emphasizing party affiliation. He said the capabilities embedded in an individual must always take precedence over and above partisan political party affiliation. That his credentials are so great there is no way the NUP Candidate Rehema Ffuge would stand any chance against him. Musa Mbaziira also claimed he is born winner who has never lost any electoral contest. He also implied being councilor and Speaker is not an end for him but a means to an end that will see him serve people in his community at even higher levels in the coming years. He made veiled reference to Rubaga Mayorship or even Rubaga South MP.
Musa Mbaziira urged the NUP Principal to back off, accept reality that he will be Rubaga Speaker for next five years and accept that he is a political survivor who, despite being NRM, has always survived strong political waves including Col Kiiza Besigye’s FDC key which in 2016 electrocuted many NRMs but left him standing tall as the Kabowa Councilor on the ticket of the ruling NRM Party. Follow the link for a video interview https://fb.watch/5W2LK4rBso/
He bragged: “This isn’t the first time I have prevailed against strong political waves because even Dr. Besigye’s key never managed to uproot me from the hearts of my people.” He likened himself to the likes of Erias Lukwago who were still elected despite the fact that the NUP wave obliterated and neutralized many non-Kyagulanyi politicians. See more in this Facebook video. (For comments on this story, call, text or whatsapp us on 0705579994, 0779411734, 0200900416 or email us at mulengera2040@gmail.com).