Besigye Wins FDC Presidency, But Faces Sedition Charges
Besigye captured the FDC presidency today, despite sedition charges from the government. Daily Monitor.
Dr. Kizza Besigye won the Forum for Democratic Change presidency at their conference in Namboole today, according to reporting by the Daily Monitor.
Delegates gave Besigye over 600 votes more than General Mugisha Muntu, his competitor, out of a total of 844 votes. Gen. Muntu promised to support Besigye’s campaign, and said he accepted the delegates’ wishes. Besigye has been president of the FDC since 2005.
On Wednesday, Besigye escaped arrest for sedition after being interrogated in Kibuli for 4 hours by CID. The Observer reported that “sources within FDC alleged that a plan had been hatched to arrest Besigye and distabilise today’s delegates’ conference at Namboole… other sources said that the plan was to interrogate Besigye until late in the evening and thereafter take him to Lira, where he would be charged with sedition and incitement.”
At a rally last month, Besigye said that the NRM government was leasing Lake Kyoga to South African investors, and the government responded by charging him with sedition and treason.
Yesterday, Gen. Muntu was one of the FDC officials who came to CID to offer to post bail for Besigye. ”We know their intentions. They have always wanted to frustrate our good democratic exercise, but I want to tell them that they will not win,” he told the Observer’s David Tash Lumu.
Besigye also faces charges that he urged a West Nile audience to break the thumbs of NRM supporters, which he denies.
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