“I Will Come As Independent If NUP Doesn’t Give Me The 2026 Kampala Lord Mayor Flag” Bobi Wine’s Elder Brother Chairman Nyanzi Hits Tables As NUP Picks Interest In Mulyanyama

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Tempers flared as Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine) the Principal of the National Unity Platform (NUP) threatened to demote his elder brother and also the party Chief Mobilizer Fred Nyanzi Ssentamu (Chairman Nyanzi) as fight for money and power deepened.

Last week, a furious Bobi Wine abruptly summoned a high level meeting at his office at the party headquarters in Makerere Kavule.The meeting was attended by Joel Ssenyonyi the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Chairman Nyanzi, David Lewis Rubongoya the party Secretary General and other NUP select officials.

Immediately when Bobi Wine entered the party headquarters, security was beefed up commanded by the foot soldiers who were joined by Habib Buwembo a celebrated political activist who recently crossed from Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) to NUP.

Sources disclosed that Bobi Wine summoned the meeting after being briefed that Nyanzi had summoned a meeting of all NUP councilors in Kampala at all levels including those who lost in the 2021 local council elections in Kampala city. According to sources, the meeting was supposed to take place at the party headquarters and the main agenda was to strategise on how to win Kampala Lord Mayor Seat come 2026.

Like we reported few days back, Nyanzi has started meeting city tycoons asking them to financially support his coming Lord Mayor bid. Bobi Wine was also given the entire report attached with evidence of tycoons his brother was meeting some of who are known NRM supporters and have been in Lukwago’s bad book.

“What I can assure you is that the meeting took almost 5 hours and it seems Chairman Nyanzi stormed out of it after disagreeing with some of the decisions,” a highly placed source inside Bobi Wine’s office told The Kampala Eye.

Sources claim that Bobi Wine directed Nyanzi with immediate effect to stop his clandestine mobilization for Lord Mayor slot explaining that his actions are putting the party in bad light and some party members have started early campaigns.Nyanzi first denied the accusations that he is campaigning.

He argued that he is streamlining KUNGA and other party grassroots mobilization drives.He told his brother that he’s not ready to stop because their competitors like President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s NRM are already in the field.

“I heard the Principal telling him that they can even remove him from that office of the Chief Mobilizer. Then after a few minutes, I saw Nyanzi storming out of the meeting,” a source said.

While talking to his people, Nyanzi assured them that even if NUP denied him the Lord Mayor ticket, he will contest on an independent and win the slot because he has enough experience. He boasted that he is the one who nurtured and modeled Bobi Wine the politician.

However Nyanzi is very sure that with his contacts in the NRM where he was once a member before 2021, will give him an upper hand to defeat Lukwago.Even though Nyanzi stormed out of the meeting, Bobi Wine, Rubongoya, Ssenyonyi remained in the meeting and they came out very late in the evening.

Sources said that after the meeting, Nyanzi briefed some of his people about what took place but assured them that come what may, he is going to be on the ballot for Kampala Lord Mayor come 2026.

NUP insiders disclosed that Bobi Wine is under pressure from a section of the party leaders are provoking him by making statements that he has turned their party into a family affair and his close family members are the ones making critical decisions for the party.

“They are provoking Bobi Wine to order for disciplinary action against them by making public attacks on his personality. Unfortunately Nyanzi is only after money and power without understanding the situation his brother is going through,” a NUP source said.

Meanwhile, NUP doesn’t see any hope in Chairman Nyanzi winning the Kampala Lord Mayoral race in 2026 and has been advised to go back and stand for the Kampala central MP Seat since Muhammad Nsereko is likely not going to return.

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