NUP Maniesto Launch Postponed

By Francis Otucu

Presidential hopeful Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine will launch his manifesto on Saturday.

The announcement to push party’s manifesto launch from Friday to Saturday was made Thursday following the untimely death of senior leader Sheikh Anas Kaliisa. Political analyst and scholar Sheikh Abdu Anas Kaliisa died Wednesday afternoon after he collapsed at his home.

As a result, the National Unity Platform has had to postpone the launch to allow for mourning.

“We have postponed our manifesto launch to Saturday 07 November, 2020 to enable our senior leaders, including myself participate in the funeral,” Bobi Wine announced on Thursday via his Facebook page.

He added: “The launch is scheduled to take place in Kakoba division, Mbarara city.”

Mbarara city, about 270Km from Kampala, had decades long been the ruling NRM stronghold until during the 2016 polls when the pendulum slightly swung towards opposition.

The NUP leader will also aim at opening up party offices in the district that is within the same metropolitan as Kiruhura, the ancestral home of the incumbent and National Resistance Party (NRM) presidential nominee Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni.

Kyagulanyi’s initial plans of launching his manifesto at the National Unity Platform (NUP) headquarters, in Kampala on Tuesday after being nominated, were foiled by security operatives who forcefully drove him from the nomination grounds in Kyambogo straight to his home in Magere, Kasangati.

He was blocked from leaving, which thereafter ensued into a serious scuffle between security and Bobi Wine supporters. Several people including the main celebrant, Bobi, got injured.