NUP Top Leadership,Parliamentary Caucus In Closed Door Crisis Meeting

National Unity Platform Party President summoned the Parliamentary Caucus to discuss issues that are likely putting the party on the verge of losing its strongholds in the country.

Among the issues expected to be prioritized include, the alleged Members of Parliament that received shs100 million and paid half of it, The party resolution to recall Hon.Mathias Mpuuga from the parliamentary commission and the fights among party members in Masaka.

yesterday,NUP supporters were involved in a bitter dispute regarding the party’s mobilization campaigns, known as Kunga where a group of local leaders, led by Masaka city mayor Florence Namayanja, who also serves as the NUP chairperson in the area, called for a meeting to address various issues, including pronouncing themselves on party members who had defected to the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU), a political pressure group led by President Yoweri Museveni's son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

 The meeting convened at the NUP party offices on Hobert Street was disrupted by a group of angry youths who accused the conveners of having selfish intentions and issuing uncoordinated statements.

A scuffle then erupted when Steven Lukyamuzi, Kimanya-Kabonera division chairperson, began reading a press statement asserting the support of all party members in Masaka for the Kunga mobilization campaign and their allegiance to decisions made by the party headquarters in Kampala.

However, the situation escalated when several youths from the audience grabbed the statement from Lukyamuzi and tore it apart, alleging misrepresentation of their views and causing misunderstandings among the party's top leadership.

Political analysts warn that the current situation in the leading opposition party may lead to its downfall if the top leadership fails to resolve matters indoors.