{"id":71144,"date":"2023-12-05T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=71144"},"modified":"2023-12-05T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:05:23","slug":"fdc-katonga-set-for-village-polls-as-najja-recruits-new-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/fdc-katonga-set-for-village-polls-as-najja-recruits-new-members\/","title":{"rendered":"FDC Katonga set for village polls as Najja recruits new members"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rodgers Magala & Sylvia Katushabe<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two rival factions of the Op<\/span>position Forum for Democrat<\/span>ic Change (FDC) party have an<\/span>nounced separate mobilisation <\/span>events as each bids to garner nation<\/span>wid<\/span>e support ahead of the 2026 Gen<\/span>eral Election.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Katonga faction has announced <\/span>elections of new leaders at village lev<\/span>el come December 9 while their coun- <\/span>terparts at Najjanankumbi are on a <\/span>nationwide mobilisation drive to re<\/span>cruit new party members. <\/span>Mr Michael Kabaziguruka, the inter<\/span>im electoral commission chairperson <\/span>for the Katonga faction, revealed yes<\/span>terday that the elections are targeting <\/span>new local leaders from 36,000 villages <\/span>countrywide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Kabaziguruka noted that the <\/span>election materials had been dis<\/span>patched to all the villages across the <\/span>country. <\/span>The village elections will be followed <\/span>by those at the parish, sub-county, con<\/span>stituency and district levels, and will <\/span>be crowned with a national delegates <\/span>conference slated for March 15 next <\/span>year as per the roadmap.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Kabaziguruka explained that <\/span>they are guided by the resolutions <\/span>passed by the September 19 delegates\u2019<\/span>
conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI call upon all FDC faithful support<\/span>ers countrywide to mobilise and turn <\/span>up in huge numbers for the grassroots <\/span>elections this Saturday, December 9,\u201d <\/span>Mr Kabaziguruka said during a press <\/span>briefing held at their offices on Katon- <\/span>ga Road in Kampala yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n

He urged their supporters to ignore all the demobilisation efforts against their electoral process by the Najjanankumbi team.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware that there are efforts by the suspended members, Patrick Oboi Amuriat [FDC president] and Nandala Mafabi [party secretary general], to sabotage the elections. We assure our supporters that we are in charge and they should participate in the elections,\u201d Mr Kabaziguruka added.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also asked all party members who were suspended by the Najjanankumbi group such as Ms Ingrid Turinawe to return, saying FDC is for all its members.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FDC Katonga faction delegates\u2019 conference held on September 19 presided over by the party National Chairperson, Ambassador Wasswa Birigwa, unanimously suspended Mr Amuriat, Mr Mafabi and Treasurer Geoffrey Ekanya. They then appointed an interim committee headed by Mr Erias Lukwago. <\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Najjanankumbi leaders yesterday noted that the mobilisation exercise is aimed at strengthening the party ahead of the 2026 General Election.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We have embarked on sub-regional conferences. We want to equip <\/span>our leaders with mobilisation skills <\/span>and even ask them to recruit mem<\/span>bers and future candidates,\u201d the par<\/span>ty spokesperson, Mr John Kikonyo<\/span>go, told journalists at the party head<\/span>quarters.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to all regions in <\/span>Uganda and when we finish them, <\/span>we shall sit at our headquarters to <\/span>analyse what will come out of them <\/span>and we move forward,\u201dhe said. <\/span><\/p>\n

The party is also gearing up for the <\/span>National Council meeting, the first <\/span>of its kind after the controversial <\/span>election that saw Mr Patrick Oboi <\/span>Amuriat an<\/span> d Mr Nathan Nandala <\/span>Mafabi retain their seats and party <\/span>president and secretary general, re<\/span>spectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Kikonyogo revealed that the <\/span>meeting, due to December 15, is <\/span>aimed at discussing the current <\/span>state of the party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rodgers Magala & Sylvia Katushabe The two rival factions of the Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party have announced separate mobilisation events as each bids to garner nationwide support ahead of the 2026 General Election. The Katonga faction has announced elections of new leaders at village level come December 9 while their coun- terparts at Najjanankumbi are on a nationwide mobilisation drive to recruit new party members. Mr Michael Kabaziguruka, the interim electoral commission chairperson for the Katonga faction, revealed yesterday that the elections are targeting new local leaders from 36,000 villages countrywide. Mr Kabaziguruka noted that the election materials had been dispatched to all the villages across the country. The village elections will be followed by those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","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":"Y\/m\/d","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":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"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":[301,2352],"class_list":["post-71144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fdc","tag-fdc-katonga-faction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71144"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71144\/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=71144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}