The National Unity Platform (NUP) president, Robert Kyagulanyi has hit back at former leader of opposition, Mathias Mpuuga over his recent remarks that alcoholics and drug addicts cannot take power from President Yoweri Museveni.
In a viral video, Mpuuga appeared to attack the Makerere -Kavule establishment, when he claimed that alcoholics and marijuana smokers cannot defeat Museveni.
“If you want to be a politician, you must be sober 24 hours a day. The person we want to push away from power does not go to bars, he is always sober. And he does not even drink wine,” Mpuuga said.
Kyagulanyi also a musician, was an avid marijuana smoker before he ‘changed’. He would display affection to weed and alcohol in his music videos, however, before crossing to politics, Bobi Wine said he had quit alcohol and smoking.
Addressing a press conference at the NUP headquarters in Kavule on Friday, Kyagulanyi, reminded Mpuuga that the people he had referred to as ‘drunkards and marijuana smokers’ are the same that appointed him as Leader of Opposition, deputy president and parliamentary commissioner.
Bobi Wine questioned Mpuuga’s stand, saying before he was called out for receiving the controversial service award, “The marijuana smokers made you the commissioner of Parliament. When you were found corrupt, they condemned you. But like I have said in the past, let’s educate our children.”
As the road to 2026 gets closer, the division in the party seems ripe, with some predicting a breakaway.
