NRM presidential candidate President Yoweri Museveni has said that the opposition wants to return politics of sectarianism, which he says the National Resistance Movement fought a long time ago.
The NRM presidential candidate said this at a campaign rally in Ngora district on Monday.
“The people here can be my witnesses. Before the NRM came, DP [Democratic Party] was for Catholics while UPC [Uganda People’s Congress] was for Anglicans and KY [Kabaka Yekka] was for Baganda,” said the President, who is seeking to retain power.
He is running against seven other candidates, including his three-time challenger Dr. Kizza Besigye and former NRM secretary general Amama Mbabazi.
Others in the race are Dr. Abed Bwanika, Maureen Kyalya, Joseph Mabirizi, Benon Biraaro and ex-Makerere University vice chancellor Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba.
“Now I hear this TDA [The Democratic Alliance] claims to be an alliance of the union. That is an NRM ideology,” Museveni told a large crowd in Ngora.
Meanwhile, the NRM leader was impressed by Adoli Gift Lillian, a 10-year-old pupil of Kaler Primary School, who recited a poem urging opposition leaders to join President Museveni for the good of the country.
The little girl wants to be a nurse and admirers leaders like Museveni.
Her mother, Florence Adungo, a teacher at the same school, said the school has over 1,000 pupils yet the facilities are not enough.
She said the president should prioritize the increase of their salaries and construct classrooms for their children.
