The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) is unraveling in a spectacular display of self-sabotage, with the Katonga faction’s ludicrous attempt to break away from Najjanankumbi epitomizing the party’s total disintegration. This schism is not a mere split; it is a catastrophic, laughable collapse that exposes the festering rot and staggering incompetence at the core of FDC.
The Katonga faction’s feeble attempt to form a new political party is nothing more than a desperate, pathetic charade. Once boasting a formidable 37 MPs in 2021, FDC now drags along with a pitiful 30, a clear sign of its swift and ignominious decline. This faction’s discontent, camouflaged in allegations of corruption and mismanagement, merely highlights the deeper, nauseating decay within the party. Instead of embarking on real reform, they are perpetuating the same self-destructive, mind-numbing patterns that have driven them to utter irrelevance.
The so-called formation of a new party is a repugnant replay of past disasters. This is the third time disillusioned ex-FDC members have attempted to flee the party’s failures, following the dismal Uganda Federal Alliance and the Alliance for National Transformation. Each of these breakaways promised rejuvenation but delivered nothing but festering infighting, fragmentation, and a pitiful lack of substantive progress. Should this new party actually come to pass, it will be nothing more than a rebranded, grotesque version of FDC’s monumental failures—a sickening rehash of incompetence that fails to address the party’s deep-seated issues.
The Najjanankumbi faction’s dismissive, delusional response, as articulated by Mr. Patrick Oboi Amuriat and Mr. Jack Sabiiti, reflects a leadership wallowing in complacency and denial. Their insistence on clinging to FDC’s “ideologies” and “structures” is a laughable display of their detachment from reality. Mr. Sabiiti’s ridiculous comparison of FDC evolving like someone repeatedly changing names is an absurdly weak attempt to justify their inertia. The fundamental issue is not the name or leadership but their utter inability to adapt, innovate, or move beyond their outdated, failed strategies.
The Katonga faction’s monumental failure to secure support from key regions such as Rwenzori, Teso, and Acholi further underscores their staggering ineptitude. Their inability to rally these vital areas around their new initiative reveals a catastrophic lack of leadership and strategic vision. The so-called promise of a new beginning is a cruel joke when the same discredited, ineffective figures are involved.
Prof. Mwambutsya Ndebesa’s brutal criticism—that the new party will merely continue FDC’s legacy of failure if it retains the same flawed individuals and methods—is an unpalatable truth. Without introducing fresh, dynamic leadership, this new entity will be nothing more than a grotesque extension of FDC’s failed past. The same inept tactics and hollow rhetoric will ensure that the new party is as useless and irrelevant as its predecessor.
Capt. Edward Francis Babu’s insight that this schism undermines the Opposition is spot-on. By fragmenting their forces, the Katonga faction is grievously weakening the broader effort to challenge the ruling regime. Their petty, self-serving squabbles and ambitions play directly into the hands of the very adversaries they claim to oppose, rendering their efforts not just futile but self-destructive.
In the end, the Katonga faction’s attempt to form a new party is a tragically misguided, absurd effort to escape the failures of FDC. This move is not a bold reinvention but a further plunge into irrelevance and farce. In their frantic attempt to distance themselves from Najjanankumbi, they are accelerating their own demise, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that their political ambitions are nothing more than a hollow, self-serving exercise in futility.
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