It has come to the notice of Uganda;s security that the Nyendo-Mukungwe Member of Parliament and Commissioner of Parliament Hon. Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba supporters are planning an attack at the National Unity Platform Headquarters to kick the party president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine), his family members and members of the Fire Base Crew out of the party headquarters at Makerere Kavule.
The development comes after Masaka City Councillor Ali Kateregga who met President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni last week and pleaded with him to order the release of all NUP Political prisoners declared that in the coming few months, Bobi Wine and his team will no longer be allowed to access the party headquarters.
Kateregga vowed that as leaders of the party, they cannot look on as Bobi Wine misleads their members by making misguided decisions which are humiliating fellow leaders and frustrating their main agenda of ousting President Museveni.
Kateregga divulged that it was wrong for Bobi Wine, who is a leader to publicly abuse him and declare him an idiot because he went openly to State House and stood in front of president Museveni to ask him to release NUP political prisoners yet there are other party leaders who meet Museveni at night dressed in gomesi to disguise themselves as female and seal political deals instead of asking for the release of NUP political prisoners.
In the same development, former Kawempe South legislator Mubarak Munyagwa Sserunga revealed that there are ongoing meetings chaired by Mpuuga who is planning to use legal means to force Bobi Wine and his people out of Kavule headquarters.
Munyagwa said that they have already hired a team of lawyers to pursue their matter in Courts of law and the lawyers have started by petitioning Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama’s Independent Electoral Commission to allow them access to NUP’s Amended Constitution, audited books of accounts and other documents.
He claimed that the lawyers are very sure that Bobi Wine is abusing the party Constitution by not forming the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) and other party organs.
NUP through their party X handle confirmed that they are still operating under the old constitution inherited from Moses Kibalama’s National Unity Reconciliation and Development Party which Munyagwa claims doesn’t give Bobi Wine powers to suspend his deputies as he did to Mpuuga.
He explained that the said Constitution gives more powers to deputies than the president who is only elected to hold the party’s flag during the presidential elections.
He added that the amended Constitution which Bobi Wine used to suspend Mpuuga is not yet authorized by Justice Byabakama’s electoral commission and cannot be operational which NUP leadership admittedly explained that there are still administrative issues which are still being handled before they can start using their amended Constitution.
Munyagwa further said that Mpuuga’s lawyers established that NUP under Bobi Wine’s leadership have mismanaged billions of shillings which they received from the electoral commission as a political party that has legislators in parliament.
He said that he is not going to be surprised when criminal charges related to corruption and abuse of office are slapped on Bobi Wine and other party leadership including Barbra Itungo Kyagulanyi wife to Bobi Wine and Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro the party’s deputy spokesperson.
Munyagwa said that in the meeting, lawyers made a strong legal calculation very sure that they will get victory against Bobi Wine in courts of law and an order will be issued stopping Bobi Wine and other party leaders from stepping at the party headquarters.
“To stop them, security has to come in and Bobi Wine will be thrown out of the party leadership as Mpuuga and other people run the party in acting capacity as the party organizes its National Conference in 2025,” Munyagwa said.
Senior Presidential Advisor on media, Joseph Tamale Mirundi claims that Mpuuga rubbished the advice to form a new political party because he wants to use the party constitution and other laws of the land to force Bobi Wine out of the party leadership.
Munyagwa on the orher hand warned that if things move as Mpuuga plans, there are might be bloodshed within NUP because Bobi Wine’s supporters, especially the foot soldiers will not allow Mpuuga to play with Bobi Wine.
Recently, Mufumbiro disclosed that Bobi Wine is a brand in entertainment and political circles.
He gave the example of the members Fire Base Crew members who threatened to fight tooth and nail to make sure that people like Mpuuga don’t joke with Bobi Wine.
When theGrapevine contacted one of the security bosses on how they are prepared to make sure that the situation does not go out of hand, he said that they are still gathering intelligence information but they are on standby to counter any security issues which may develop from Mpuuga-Bobi Wine fight.
He added that they know that the Bobi Wine/Mpuuga fight can be as deadly as Dr. Kizza Besigye/Nathan Nandala Mafabi fight in Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) especially once their supporters decide to turn the fight physical.
Last week, the Leader of Opposition in parliament and also the party spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi said that their side is ready for negotiations with Mpuuga.
A number of religious and cultural leaders have been pleading with both Bobi Wine and Mpuuga to solve their issues amicably through mediation.