President Museveni blames his failure to retire on Ugandans

President Museveni has blamed his failure to retire on Ugandans who keep re-electing him after every five years when his term expires.

He said each time he seeks to go home, Ugandans keep voting him back thus denying him the opportunity to retire.

The President made the remarks while appearing on Capital FM’s Capital Gang talk show on Saturday. He was responding to a question by Kyadondo East MP Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda who challenged him to give Ugandans a Christmas gift by announcing the date when he will retire, just like Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga promised Ugandans she will ensure passing of the anti-homosexuality Bill before Christmas.

“Well, I don’t think Ugandans are as obsessed with my retirement as Ssemujju seems to be because when I go to ask them at the elections, five million say don’t go, you stay,” he said.

“You have heard them, singing tajakugenda tajakugenda (he won’t go). So if Ugandans really were like Ssemujju, I would be happy to retire because I am not lacking where to retire. I am a member of my party and I do what my party wants,” the President added.

After the President narrated the history of the NRM’s ideology, Bugweri County MP Abdul Katuntu challenged him to explain whether the current rift in the ruling party pitting the secretary general against him as the chairman was not caused by a power contest rather than ideological differences. Mr Museveni said he has been in power for 28 years and claimed he is not interested in power.

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