Most of the former contenders in the February 2016 elections say they will not attend Yoweri Museveni\u2019s swearing ceremony which is due in four days.<\/p>\n
President Museveni, the incumbent won seven others including four time challenger Dr.Kiiza Besigye of the opposition\u2019s Forum for Democratic Change, PDP\u2019s Dr Abed Bwanika and John Patrick Amama Mbabazi, his former Prime minister.<\/p>\n
Others are Benon Biraro, Prof Venansius Baryamureeba, a former Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Maureen Kyalya Walube and Joseph Eiton Mabirizi.<\/p>\n
Early this week, NRM deputy spokesperson Ofwono Opondo said the former candidates were issued with invitation cards to the inauguration, something they heavily refute.<\/p>\n
FDC\u2019s Kizza Besigye tells K-FM that he has not received the invite and that he cannot attend such a ceremony.<\/p>\n
Abed Bwanika of the People\u2019s Development Party also dismisses the talk regarding the invitation.<\/p>\n
In a similar way, Joseph Mabirizi says that Ofwono\u2019s invitation is a mere allegation, and a show for the press.<\/p>\n
Efforts to talk to other candidates on the matter have so far yielded no fruit.<\/p>\n
Story By Moses Kyeyune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most of the former contenders in the February 2016 elections say they will not attend Yoweri Museveni\u2019s swearing ceremony which is due in four days. President Museveni, the incumbent won seven others including four time challenger Dr.Kiiza Besigye of the opposition\u2019s Forum for Democratic Change, PDP\u2019s Dr Abed Bwanika and John Patrick Amama Mbabazi, his former Prime minister. Others are Benon Biraro, Prof Venansius Baryamureeba, a former Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Maureen Kyalya Walube and Joseph Eiton Mabirizi. Early this week, NRM deputy spokesperson Ofwono Opondo said the former candidates were issued with invitation cards to the inauguration, something they heavily refute. FDC\u2019s Kizza Besigye tells K-FM that he has not received the invite and that he cannot attend such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}