{The FDC presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye, has said the February 18 election contest against President Museveni will be a knockout and people should stop waiting for a rerun.}<\/p>\n
\u201cI hear people saying there will be a rerun, how will that happen? I have been to most parts of Uganda. I am remaining with very few districts to cover. I see we shall have a knockout,\u201d Dr Besigye said while addressing a rally at Nyarushanje Sub-county headquarters in Rubabo County, Rukungiri District, yesterday.<\/p>\n
He said waiting for a rerun was absurd as the support for the NRM has completely dwindled because of the challenges people are facing and the popularity of President Museveni, who is the NRM presidential candidate, has also gone down.<\/p>\n
Many analysts have been quoted arguing that there may be a rerun after the February 18, polls as none of the eight candidates is likely to get the required 50 per cent plus 1 vote to take it all.
\nDr Besigye, however, says the support he has seen across the country guarantees a first round win. Speaking at a rally in Kebisoni Sub-county, the FDC candidate said he is still committed to fulfilling the struggle he started together with Mr Museveni and others in 1980.<\/p>\n
He said the commitment they had was returning power to the people, which the President has since deviated from and he (Dr Besigye) and those who have since moved away from him, are still on the same struggle which according to him, will soon be achieved.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am still on the struggle we began in 1980, the struggle to have the people govern themselves, vote for their leader and tell him what to do not the leader telling them what to do, this is what we are committed for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Dr Besigye said while President Museveni was not popular in the 1980s, he gained much support because of the vision he had and deviating from the vision of the people\u2019s struggle meant that no one needs to trust him anymore.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other day I was in Kiruhura, I told the people there: \u201cwe brought to you President Museveni in 1980 and you rejected him saying he was a stranger and a wanderer, that he wanted to make your children wanderers, how come now you have liked him more than us who brought him to you?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we started a struggle, to return power to the people. We went to the elections and told the people that if UPC stole the vote, we shall go to the bush, what brought us from the bush is not our power or the guns we had,\u201d Dr Besigye said.<\/p>\n
He addressed rallies at Nyakisoroza in Nyakishenyi Sub-county, Nyarushanje, Kebisoni, Buyanja, Buhunga, Ruhinda, Bwambara, Bugangari and finally Kasoroza in Nyakagyeme Sub-county about 600 meters from Maj Gen Jim Muhwezi\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n
Dr Besigye rallied residents to guard their vote from being stolen by the NRM, which he said had turned into the same government they fought in the 1980s.<\/p>\n
Speaking at Buyanja Sub-county headquarters, Dr Besigye said many Ugandans still had a challenge of fear which they needed to do away with. He said people needed to know the power they hold and stop quaking before RDCs, DISOs, police and other NRM local leaders.<\/p>\n
Source:Daily Nation:[It will be knockout, not rerun – Besigye->http:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/News\/National\/It-will-be-knockout-not-rerun–Besigye\/-\/688334\/3058004\/-\/1sqa8e\/-\/index.html]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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