Reply To: How Yoweri Museveni Cheated Elections

[Yoweri Museveni]

Here is a real catch 22 for the dictatorship. How to deal with Nsereko upon the backdrop of the deputy speakership of parliament.
1. One option would be for the dictator to use the method of hostility and to try to crush and silence him. But this would be a hilly path for M7. Experience should show that this is what he tried to use against Besigye but it was counterproductive as it afforded Besigye a lot of limelight and actually made him a big brand.
2. Another option would be to drop the stick and hold the carrot….Appease Nsereko. Fob him off with a cabinet post. But this would send a negative message to the other party members: that defying the dictator is the only way to the “promised land”. That gesture would bring forth many rebel MPs and the dictator already has his hands too full to afford the luxury of creating new rebel MPs
3. The dictator can just ignore Nsereko and adopt a “live and let live” policy. But that too would be a grave mistake. Nserekp has shown that he has the strength to influence members from both sides of Parliament. To leave him criticizing the dictatorship can greatly affect it. For starters, Nsereko was nominated by an NRM MP in the over bearing presence of the dictator and garnered more than the sum of opposition and independent MPs in the house. He ate in NRM votes. You cant ignore such a force.
Faced with such a situation M7 needs the best political mathematicians around him. But the last time i checked, these were more loyal to Mbabazi than to him………