The former Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LOP), Mathias Mpuuga, has expressed disappointment in the leader of the National Unity Platform, NUP party leader, Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, describing him as a total joker who is unserious and should not be allowed to take over leadership of the country.
In an interview with a local media house on Sunday, October 6, 2024, Mpuuga stressed the continued lack of focus and seriousness by NUP leader Kyagulanyi, whom he blamed for derailing the struggle and turning guns on his comrades.
“I think Mr. Kyagulanyi was trying to communicate to the world that he is not serious because if you are a serious person who wants to rule this country, you can’t go out of your way and simply make claims so that you are happy. You make claims to try to taint a comrade just because you want to misinform the public. It’s very unfortunate,” Mpuuga said in response to recent accusations by Kyagulanyi, who called Mpuuga an NRM mole.
Mpuuga said that he thought Kyagulanyi had stopped using drugs and changed into a sober person, but to his surprise, Kyagulanyi keeps seeing those who raise challenges to him as his rivals, a culture he had while still a mere weed-smoking musician.
“I thought over time Mr. Kyagulanyi would change because he has a problem inherently. I thought over time, by working with him, he would change and be a different person, but when you raise a challenge for him to respond to, he looks at you as a rival. He looks at me as Chameleon or Bebe Cool. Therefore, he is still into those musical wars,” Mpuuga said.
Mpuuga also revealed that Kyagulanyi is building a cult that will make him the worst dictator that Uganda has ever seen in case he becomes president.
“You can see the buildup. I have worked with Dr. Kizza Besigye for all these years. I have worked with Norbert Mao with all his troubles. I worked for so many years with Dr. Paul Semogerere and the others. I never saw any of them at any one time calling and intimidating people because of their views. So, the country must be worried about the possibility of building a dictator. It should be a concern,” he noted.
He added that “the other day you saw him declaring himself a presidential candidate. Which party organ appointed him to be the party candidate? So, he is effectively saying that nobody should raise.”
With the 2026 presidential elections on the horizon, Mpuuga’s revelations cast a dark cloud over Kyagulanyi’s political career, as political analysts suggest that Mpuuga’s statements could either serve as a wake-up call for the NUP or deepen the divisions within its ranks.