Kadaga’s political self destruction

Rebecca Kadaga is a woman of numerous parts. For a very long time, she held influence over Uganda’s parliament: first as appointee speaker (20001-2011), and afterward as speaker (2011-2021). To rise and remain at the apex of force for this long is an assertion of one’s political ability and judgment. However following twenty years, Kadaga made the greatest bumble that may flag the finish of her long political profession: she challenged the one who controls every one of the political strings in our country, President Yoweri Museveni. What precisely occurred?

Following the decisions in January, Kadaga found out about the way that a few Members of Parliament were assembling to have her appointee, the approachable Jacob Oulanyah, supplant her as speaker. She went to Kisozi, the president’s nation farm, and looked for crowd with Museveni. There she whined of a plot to remove her. However this was a sign that the president didn’t need her to proceed as speaker. One explanation is self-evident – she was outgrowing her boots. In a royal majority rules system like Uganda, the huge man would not need any other individual to hold influence over a particularly crucial organization for extremely long. Indeed, even a political beginner would see this.

Prevailing upon most of MPs and over again may mean you have a free base of help. Since they are drawn from across the whole country, it additionally may mean you have a public stage. This is perilous in light of the fact that one can utilize it to dispatch their own official bid. In such conditions, it is in every case better to act idiotic. In any case, Kadaga needed to act savvy, show that she had her own force and could raise votes free of the kingmaker. However her best technique would have been to act humble and show that she isn’t anything without Museveni. That would have made her safe.

At long last came the NRM CEC meeting which supported Oulanyah as the sole party competitor. That was a composition on the divider. Its absolutely impossible CEC could settle on such a choice without Museveni’s help. In the event that Kadaga actually had eyes, she would have seen this. Yet, I speculate she had become inebriated on power and might be accepted she could stand her ground. Her rivals and adversaries had guaranteed that she has raked in boatloads of cash, with numerous unmistakable financial specialists emptying heaps of money into her depository. This was hazard factor number two: you can’t have autonomous wellsprings of financing away from the large man. Imagine a scenario where these autonomous wellsprings of account are utilized to look for the enormous prize – the administration.