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The President General of the Democratic Party (DP), Norbert Mao has asked opposition Inter Party Coalition (IPC) to join DP to form a strong political opposition block capable of defeating the ruling government in 2011 elections.
Mao says all parties in IPC should join DP in a bid to win 2011 polls. The IPC member parties are Forum for Democratic Change, Conservative Party, Justice Forum and Social Democratic Party.
He says IPC is weakening because Uganda People’s Congress has quit its camp. UPC left IPC last week.
Mao brags that it is only DP among other opposition parties in Uganda with established structures.
The DP president says IPC has internal weaknesses and divisions. Mao says he told IPC a long time ago that the Inter Party coalition could not stand without DP.
NRM members want Mbabazi to resign over vote rigging.
The vote rigging, bribery of voters, violence and extension of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries elections has received a lot of criticism with some members calling for the resignation of the Secretary General of the party, Amama Mbabazi.
The NRM last week, September 4 held elections in areas whose party elections were marred by violence.
The MP for Lwemiyaga County, Theodore Sekikubo says its time members of the electoral commission in NRM together with Mbabazi step down.
Sekikubo says NRM elections have been marred by vote rigging due to Amama’s poor leadership and general weaknesses.