Isingiro NUP Woman MP Flag Bearer Joins NRM, Citing Betrayal
Isingiro District National Unity Platform Woman MP flag bearer Lillian Keitetsi has joined a growing list of NUP leaders that have defected to the ruling NRM party.
This comes just a few days to elections which will be held on January 14.
She had been in the NUP for three years and serving as the party’s district chairperson and a senior mobilizer for the western region.
According to Nrm.ug, Keitese decided to exit the party after realizing its leader, Bobi Wine, failed to walk the talk as he preaches water and drinks wine.
“As we all know, Robert Kyagulanyi, who is the aspiring president of NUP has betrayed us and decided to fly his family away to the United States of America leaving us to die miserably after we have been beaten, arrested so many times, sold our land and other property for the struggle,” Keitetsi said.
“That means after mobilizing whites to destabilize peace in this country his family will be safe while ours will be in Isingiro and no one will evacuate them. It is very sad,” she added.
“From where does he get the courage to tell us kwebereramu? I have therefore joined NRM, the party of freedom because Bobi Wine preaches water and drinks wine. When you evacuate your family out of a country during elections it means you are planning violence or a war and for us, we should die. So, I choose not to die in a struggle for NUP, let me join NRM and I fight for peace to prevail after elections.’’
Keitetsi advised the youth across the country to picks a lesson from recent events. “I urge all the NUP youth agents and mobilizers I have been working with to cross and join NRM to secure their future. We joined the struggle willingly and Kyagulanyi was not giving us any coin. But we used our energy and worked for the struggle,’’ Keitetsi said.
The MP contender committed to using the remaining days to mobilize for NRM in Isingiro to cement its victory over the crippling NUP.
Mathias Kasamba, the Director for Mobilisation, Cadre Development and Recruitment –- welcomed Lillian Keitetsi at a function held at the party headquarters in Kampala.
“Uganda is not at war and there is no need to panic and cause alarm. This is our peaceful country where all of us should feel free to enjoy the prevailing freedom. What we are going for on 14th January is just an exercise of democracy that for us in NRM believe in,’’ Kasamba said.
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