The National Unity Platform (NUP) party President, Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, has predictably continued to exhibit political immaturity and ideological deficiency in all his political activities in the country and abroad.
Ugandans have waited for Bobi Wine to tell them what he would do for them if given a chance to be president, but it has turned into a tall order.
Bobi Wine, instead of marketing his manifesto like other politicians do, has, for all his political life, done nothing apart from daily complaints, lamentations, and telling Ugandans what they already know. This has left many Ugandans wondering if this pseudo-politician has any plan for the country.
Like any other opposition politician in Uganda, Bobi Wine’s slogan, ‘Museveni Must Go,’ without telling what happens if Museveni goes, has left Ugandans doubting his political prowess and now look at him as a destroyer and not a builder.
For all his time in politics, he spends much of his time preaching sectarianism and hatred and abusing the president and his family, something that has made his political activities look personal. He is now looked at as a clueless, half-baked politician pursuing personal interests.
The same Bobi Wine has failed to lead his party. NUP has suffered with internal fights since its inception, something that has made the likes of Mathias Mpuuga, Abed Bwanika, and many others quit and form other political outfits. The intolerance in NUP and fights for finances clearly show a party full of excited political novices who cannot be trusted to lead a country after failing to lead a small political entity.
After losing the 2021 presidential elections and withdrawing the election petition he had filed, the half-baked politician was all over telling Ugandans how elections cannot remove President Museveni; he went ahead to organize violent demonstrations that were definitely thwarted. Many Ugandans are now shocked that the same politician who has been bastardizing elections is the same person declaring to contest again in 2026 even when his party has not chosen him.
His declaration as the NUP presidential candidate without following the party’s internal electoral processes has reaffirmed the claims that Bobi Wine is a dictator Uganda doesn’t deserve. Ideally, his modus operandi is undeserving for a country like Uganda that has practiced democracy ever since President Museveni and the National Resistance Movement assumed power.
Uganda does not need Bobi Wine’s type of politics. Any party seeking change needs to present what they can do better instead of trivializing politics and taking everything personally. Ugandans deserve better than the current opposition that benefits from playing to the gallery and has no vision for the country.
