Why is the NRM holding onto power?

The NRM-O should appreciate that in respect to politics, Ugandans should be seen to be developing through being able to make a choice and to alternate between different choices. The current thinking of resisting is placing the NRM-O on the wrong side of history. It may appear or sound to conceptual as opposed to real and theoretical rather than practical, but today form is substance and substance is form. Otherwise Mubarak and Ghaddafi would still be presidents and Obama would not be president.

As the NRM-O resists exiting power, it is no longer clear whether it is simply a political party, a party-government where the organs of government are the same as those of the party or an extension of the state structures such as judiciary, public service, police and army.

If NRM-O is only a political party, then there is no excuse for not changing the faces in its internal leadership and even those it presents for national leadership. The writer is a doctorate fellow at Makerere University