{Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has termed former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi’s presidential bid as ‘bad conduct and premature’.}
President Museveni, in a recorded statement circulated to the media Monday night, hit back at Mr Mbabazi, saying he served the system whose weaknesses he seeks to solve.
“…our method of work does not involve that kind of conduct; neither the party nor the electoral commission has announced the dates of elections. I therefore do not think it is proper for the Rt Hon Mbabazi to waste your time with that premature electioneering,” President Museveni said.
Responding to Mr Mbabazi’s eight-point programme, should he be elected, the President said Mbabazi was given a chance to serve as Prime Minister and he did not effect those programmes.
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“I, therefore, do not think it is proper for the Rt Hon Mbabazi to waste his time with that premature electioneering. Those are issues that should be handled in NRM at the right time when the Electoral Commission of NRM has arranged for those elections. I think that method of work is wrong.”
Mr Mbabazi Monday declared interest in running for the presidency in the 2016 General Election.
He said:: “You’ll be making a choice for your families, your children, and the generations to come. A new age is upon us, and upon this, our focus must rest. Yesterday is gone, and today’s challenges must have newer, better answers. Uganda can work, together let us make it work.”
Mr Mbabazi was the Prime Minister from 24 May 24, 2011 to September 19, 2014.
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