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RESOLUTION ON PARTY COHESION AND GOVERNANCE

We, the undersigned members of the NRM Caucus

attending a retreat at the National Leadership Institute

(NALI) Kyankwanzi (6th16thFebruary 2014);

Fully awareof our Countrys historicalpast and the need

to consolidate and sustain the Milestones registered over

the years since 1986;

Cognizant of the fact that there is still a lot more to be

done in order to realize our ideological vision of uniting

Uganda(Nationalism), Pan-africanism, transforming our

country from a poor peasantry society to a modern

economy and upholding democracy;

Consciousof the fact that what has been so far achieved

over the last 28 years needs to be guarded jealously and

improved upon to realize our vision;

Awarethat when individuals engage in personal scheming,

party cohesion is undermined, development efforts are

distracted and the population is diverted from work to early

politicking;

DO here by resolve;

i) To support H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni tocontinue leading and facilitating our country on its

take off journey to transformation.


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ii) To strongly appeal to and urge H.E Yoweri KagutaMuseveni to offer himself as a Presidential Candidate

and NRM flag bearer in the 2016 general elections.

iii) To discourage some senior leaders within theparty with Presidential ambitions from pursuing

schemes that compromise party cohesion, unity, breed

factionalism, and instead urge them to use established

party procedures in an open manner.

Justification

Political Parties world over have one common agenda; that

is, to contest for power and win so as to implement their

plans/manifestos. Without attaining victory at the polls, all

their plans however good and well intentioned they may be,

will be shelved. It is the party that wins and not theindividual leaders.

The idea therefore, of looking at ourselves as individual

political entities, separate from the party and therefore

working to advance personal ambitions is wrong. The party

must win first and so we all win. We therefore do not need

to take any chances or attempt to make trials/experiments

while selecting a Presidential Flag bearer. Anybody else canwait.

We are safer with a driverwho has not only demonstrated

ability as the founding leader of the revolution that


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liberated Uganda but also managed to keep the Country

together given its turbulent political history, restored our

Countrys National pride, built the economy with strong

Fiscal and Monetary policy instruments and guaranteedpeace and stability within the Country and the Region with

a strong National, Professional and disciplined army. This

driveris none other than President Yoweri Kaguta

Museveni.

As NRM we should stand to reject and resist firmly the well

orchestrated propaganda of our opponents, sometimes

spiced so well to even appeal to our own party Members

and leaders from within by saying that our President has

overstayed and therefore should handover power in a

peaceful transition. Let no one be fooled. The strength of

our leader stands out and so his opponents will invest in

any possible blackmail that will deter him from running

and thus give them a free ride. They are terribly defeated

with him in the race.

The question therefore, is not Long stayper se, or change

of leaders after short intervals but rather, what the leader

does for his or her Country. If changing leaders after short

intervals were to be the remedy for guaranteeing a

Countrys political future, then Uganda would have

prospered by far between the period 1962 up to1986when we changed up to eight Presidents. Why then didnt

we experience economic growth, stability or peaceful

transition so much talked about?To the contrary,

Ugandas only real independence as well as attainment of


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democracy and peoples freedoms has been under the

uninterrupted 28 years of NRM rule.

There is no logic whatsoever in this cheap and populist

notion that the NRM adversaries deliberately scream so

much loud about, so as to intimidate us from fielding our

own best, that guarantees and boosts our party victory

fortunes. They should mind the business of their own

parties.

Colleagues, History is there to prove us right. Visionary

leaders that managed to build strong foundations for theirCountries and transform them like Li Kuan Yuof

Singapore,Late Melesi Zenawi of Ethiopia, among others,

never did so by just taking short stints at the Presidency.

They did so over a long period. That is how longevity can be

very positive especially if the leader means well. Such

leaders however, like the late Zenawi, were unfairly

demonized by the traitors of Africa both from within andwithout, but they resisted those lectures of symbolic and

not real democracy. Its their sacrifices that today account

for the rich economies of their Countries and prosperity of

their people.

Democracy is therefore, not built by numbers of leaders

merely taking turns at the Presidency. Democracy is

instead built by ensuring that its core pre-requisites likeuniversal, free, fair and regular elections, free press, full

citizenry participation, among others do exist and are

deliberately promoted. This is what the NRM did. Those


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voices screaming loud therefore, do not in any way

represent the majority wishes of Ugandans. They

should never intimidate us from deciding who leads

our Party and who carries our flag.

I appeal to our other senior party leaders with presidential

ambitions to shelve them for now and we collectively

concentrate on securing party victory. Harboring

ambitions is not necessarily bad; it should however never;

be pursued at the expense of party cohesion, disrupt

development efforts and divert the population from work to

early politicking. Personal ambitions for leadership

notwithstanding, the interest of our party must at all times

take precedence over personal interests.

Conclusion

As for me the mover of this motion, and all the seconders

whose hands are hereto appended, we shall support

President Y.K Museveni come 2016 and we accordinglyurge him to unreservedly offer himself for this National

task as he has always done in the past. We appeal to

other members of all the other party organs and the

wider NRM fraternity to support this proposal and

thus be able to secure victory for our party with a

winning candidate come 2016.

Our decision is logical and we shall speak and mobilize for

it at every fora no matter what schemes of intimidation our

adversaries foment against us.


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