{"id":69961,"date":"2023-10-24T07:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T04:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=69961"},"modified":"2023-10-24T07:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T04:37:40","slug":"fdc-katonga-faction-set-for-mobilisation-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/fdc-katonga-faction-set-for-mobilisation-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"FDC Katonga faction set for mobilisation drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">A team of founding members of <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the Opposition Forum for Dem<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ocratic Change (FDC) yesterday <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">blessed the Katonga faction led <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">by the Kampala Lord Mayor, Mr Eri<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">as Lukwago, and gave them the green <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">light to carry on with their planned <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The founder members, who con<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">verged yesterday in Namugongo dur<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ing the consultative meeting organ<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ised by the Katonga faction, indicated that they were disappointed by what was happening in the party, but said they were comfortable with the roadmap laid out by the Katonga team. The Bugisu region elder, Mr Habib Wabende, said FDC was formed as an alternative to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party but the feud within the party beat this purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">He said the party supporters are also divided after different accounts being reported in the media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201cWe are ready to work with the interim leadership and tell the people who is right and who is wrong. We are going to tell the people back home that what is in the media is wrong,\u201dMr Wabende said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Mr Maate Santo, an elder from Kasese, asked the Katonga team to stay focused and continue with the nation wide mobilisation to convince and recruit more people to the party. Among the resolutions that were reached after the meeting included proceeding with various court cases against the Najjanankumbi team, kickstarting their nationwide mobilisation campaigns as well as conducting their grassroots elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Addressing journalists after the meeting yesterday, the acting vice chairperson, Ms Salaam Musumba, said party officials are starting their nationwide mobilisation next week. She said they will meet party lead<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ers starting with Busoga Sub-region before traversing the entire country ahead of the faction\u2019s January grassroot elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>Purpose of drive<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201cWe are going to start nationwide outreach [exercise] to tell the country and our party supporters what hap-<br role=\"presentation\" \/>pened. We shall also listen to what our supporters want to tell us,\u201d Ms Musamba said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">She added: \u201cAfter those meetings, we expect them to draw the line most especially on where they belong. The elders and founder members are satisfied with what we are doing and we are on the same page with them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> Meanwhile, Ms Musumba said they are not planning to seek permission from the police, saying that just like the police did not disrupt their Namugongo meeting, they are optimistic that the same will prevail in the subsequent meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of founding members of the Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) yesterday blessed the Katonga faction led by the Kampala Lord Mayor, Mr Erias Lukwago, and gave them the green light to carry on with their planned activities. The founder members, who converged yesterday in Namugongo during the consultative meeting organised by the Katonga faction, indicated that they were disappointed by what was happening in the party, but said they were comfortable with the roadmap laid out by the Katonga team. The Bugisu region elder, Mr Habib Wabende, said FDC was formed as an alternative to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party but the feud within the party beat this purpose. He said the party supporters are also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":69156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"F j, Y g:i a","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[364,2212,66],"class_list":["post-69961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-erias-lukwago","tag-fdc-faction","tag-kizza-besigye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69961"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}