Bukenya's quotes on Museveni

Former vice president, Prof Gilbert Bukenya has pledged to support President Yoweri Museveni in the 2016 general elections, he also said that Museveni is better than any other candidate. We managed to capture some of his quotes:

1. “Amama Mbabazi is a very intelligent man. He is a very experienced leader. I believe for some time, Amama was the one shaping President Museveni. We can’t just throw away his experience,” Bukenya said on Feb 11 2015.

2. “I am a professor of medicine and I am supposed to gesture while stressing a point. As a teacher, I am supposed to communicate well. There is no way you can say that I am the one copying Museveni. May be its President Museveni copying me. I am a professor and he is not. Who should copy the other?” Bukenya said on Feb 11 2015

3. “Mbabazi and I have been closer to Museveni than many of those who are now blindly supporting his ‘life presidency’. I advise NRM MPs to reject that proposal because it would be constitutionalizing dictatorship. When a person reaches 75 years he begins to experience mental retardation (dementia).” Bukenya in February.

4.“I remember in 1986, President Museveni said the biggest problem of Africa is leaders who overstay in power. Unfortunately he has become that very problem. He is now Uganda’s biggest problem. The President should avoid killing the legacy he has struggled to build throughout his life,” Bukenya told journalists at parliament on Feb 10.

4. “We went around the country asking voters to give Museveni one more term. But now, there is every indication that he is set to become a life president,” Bukenya stated.

5.“President Museveni has been in power for over 29 years but our hospitals are in a terrible state. He has failed to even repair the 29 hospitals Dr. Milton Obote built. Whereas he calls him swine, Obote did better than Museveni in this area,” Bukenya argued.

6.“I will stand, that I can tell you. Am getting stronger every day,” Bukenya said on 10th Feb.

7.“The only person who can disown me is my mother Nabulo who died. I was not born NRM. If they expel me, I can join another political group,” he said during an interview in observer.

8. “TDA was poisoned and people who are there are very greedy. President Museveni has the right qualifications to lead this country,” said Prof Bukenya on October 9 2015.

9. “Museveni has previously referred to his predecessors as buffoons and swine but his actions are similar…” he said.

“We have to save the country from destruction, we want a quality Uganda; for example, during Amin’s time, the quality of education and healthcare was wonderful…,” Bukenya said on July 6 2015

10. “I have talked to him before and the discussions have not brought up anything fruitful,” he said. “I don’t want to talk to him for purposes of electioneering and after the elections, everything goes back to square one.”

11. If he is to talk, Museveni must first denounce the Kyankwanzi resolution that proclaimed him the NRM sole presidential candidate, effectively shielding him from internal competition.