President Yoweri Museveni has emerged victorious in the previous elections held in Uganda after beating his opponents hands down.
The opponents, instead of streamlining their mobilization strategies to better the next elections, instead repeat the same strategic mistakes that made them lose.
The former Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate, Kizza Besigye, committed the same mistakes during four consecutive elections until he made his once formidable party collapse.
His counterparts in other opposition parties are doing the same and committing worse mistakes but surprisingly expecting to win the experienced and more organized Museveni.
These opposition leaders are full of excitement, arrogance, deception, intolerance, violence, and many more. They turn their political parties into personal organizations aimed at making their families and relatives rich at the expense of gullible supporters.
Their mode of politics has been characterized by a lack of ideological foundation and has no manifestos to put on the table to convince voters.
As if they follow the same script, their energy is directed to hate speeches, tribalism, and abusing the president and the First family, making everything look more personal. They spend almost all their time in useless ventures that do not add anything to their votes.
On the other hand, President Museveni is very calculative and a master at his game.
He knows where voters are, and he goes to them using his well-built and ideologically upright grassroots structures. The NRM strategic manifesto with its principles of patriotism, Pan-Africanism, socio-economic transformation, and democracy has been the unchallenged guiding pillar.
President Museveni built the NRM into a broad-based party with tolerance; his hospitality and parental nature of welcoming and listening to the dissent views give it more credibility than these opposition parties that have failed to stabilize their small parties.
Whereas these ideologically bankrupt opposition politicians spend their time pretending to be angelic and deceiving Ugandans about how they want to create a government where all people are equal, Ugandans know well that even in the big countries that pretend to be more democratic, not all people there are equal, and it is an impossibility in real life.
The opposition leaders have failed to understand that Uganda does not have an angel as a president, and no president can do everything at once because development is a process.
It’s without a doubt that President Museveni is headed for a sure win come 2026 with higher margins compared to 2021, and many Ugandans will be surprised if these confused opposition parties start resorting to the usual unjustifiable claim of election rigging.
They should always blame their failures on themselves since they have failed to know what to do. They are bad losers.