Mbabazi team consider calling off campaigns over violence

Independent presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi addresses a rally in Masaka recently.

Masaka. Members of Independent presidential candidate Amama Mbazizi’s team are contemplating calling off their campaigns to protest the continued violence meted out against their candidates and supporters.

Mr Mathias Nsubuga said their campaigns have suffered a lot of frustrations planned by NRM party functionaries whom he accused of using the police and other security agencies to harass them and cause confusion at their campaign rallies.
Addressing journalists in Masaka Town last week, Mr Nsubuga said: “Many of our supporters and campaign agents, including candidates, are being arrested and detained beyond the mandatory period and we feel we cannot continue looking on as our rights are being suppressed.”

He accused the Electoral Commission of surrendering its powers of regulating the campaigns to the police that are instead abusing it to the extent of teargassing presidential candidates.
He noted that the summit, which will possibly convene this weekend may consider, among other resolutions to adopt politics of defiance or call off their campaigns until the ground is levelled for all competing candidates to campaign freely.

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Mr Michael Kennedy Ssebalu, the spokesperson of candidate Museveni’s Taskforce, claimed the threats by the Go Forward team are a clear indicator that the NRM is more popular than them.