FDC issues road map for party elections

By Lawrence Mubiru

2^nd Oct 2023

The Najjanankumbi-based Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) expects over 1200 delegates in the upcoming National Executive Committee elections this week.

Boniface Toterebuka Bamwenda, the FDC Electoral Commission Chairman informed the journalists during the press conference on Monday that the party’s National Executive Committee elections will take place on October 6, at Patidar Samaj Sports Ground Lugogo with an expected number of 1,271 voters.

He said the voters, election observers and other persons shall be accredited at the party headquarters on Thursday 5 October from 9am to 5pm.

Toterebuka listed the categories of voters invited as District Chairpersons, General Secretaries, Secretaries for Publicity and Mobilization, Women league Chairpersons and Youth Secretaries while at the constituency level Chairpersons and General Secretaries of whom one must be a female were invited.

He added that elections shall take place in all vacant positions and that successful candidates will be expected to serve in respect of the party constitution till the end of their term in 2028.

On whether he can deliver a free and fair election being that some party members who were against the election have accused him of being impartial, Toterebuka said that his record isn’t questionable and can never work under anyone’s influence.

Speaking at the same press briefing, the party deputy spokesperson John Kikonyogo scoffed at those against the process and threatened to sue the party electoral commission chairman.

He said if they are unable to find Toterebuka to serve him with any court documents, he is available to show them to him.

The FDC descended into chaos after a section of the party accused the top leaders of pocketing money given to them by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

The disagreement has since led to the division of the party with the Katonga faction holding an extraordinary delegates’ conference that suspended both Amuriat and Nandala as president and secretary general respectively.

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