Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda Unseated as FDC Parliamentary Chief Whip, Replaced by Yusuf Nsibambi

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Party has undergone a significant leadership shake-up, with Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda being unseated from his position as the FDC Parliamentary Chief Whip and replaced him with Mawokota South Member of Parliament Yusuf Nsibambi.

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According to a statement from FDC’s Secretary General Nathan Nandala Mafabi dated August 7th 2023, the party has withdrawn Ssemujju “with immediate effect”.The letter from Mafabi has been copied to the Speaker’s office, to Ssemujju, to the opposition chief whip and to Nsibambi.
 
According to Kira Municipality legislator Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has said that he is not surprised that the top leadership of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has decided to sack him as the party Whip in Parliament.

Ssemujju said that he has always expected it because ever since his party president Patrick Amuriat Oboi started hobnobbing with President Yoweri Museveni, he is now working hard to fulfil the wishes of his new invisible master (Gen Museveni).

“This was just a matter of time because, in our earlier meeting with Amuriat, he told FDC MPs that Ssemujju Nganda was talking too much and was causing you other MPs problems. So it’s just given that Museveni would tell him that please I no longer want Ssemujju is causing me too much trouble. In fact, I was waiting for this,” he told journalists on Tuesday.

He noted that he was elected by the FDC National Executive Committee, therefore Amuriat and Nandala Mafabi have no right to sack him like they are purporting. He, however, added that there is nothing in being the FDC whip in Parliament and if they wanted it he was free to give it back and there was no need of sacking him like they are claiming.

“Because my major responsibility is to represent the people of Kira Municipality. Amuriat and Nandala were already uncomfortable. Amuriat has been so incompetent that even fears competition from his own people, I think now he will become a very big leader since Ssemujju who has been disturbing him is no longer the whip and I congratulate him,” he said.

In an August, 8, letter, Amuriat has asked the FDC disciplinary committee chairman, James Otto to immediately cause the committee to convene to hear cases of six members of the party accused of being hostile to the party.

“I proceed under article 28(3)(b)(iii) and acting in consultation with the party working committee to request you to convene meetings of the committee on discipline to hear and dispose cases of hostility towards the party, failure to execute and absconding from duty on the following members,” Amuriat says in the letter.

According to the FDC president, the six affected members set for disciplinary action include the party deputy president, Erias Lukwago, secretary for information and publicity, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, Kennedy Okello, the deputy secretary for presidency and  Dr.Okello Ekwaro, the deputy secretary for mobilization.

Others are Samuel Makhoka W’Mugenyi, the deputy for international and regional,  Mubarak Munyagwa, the secretary for mobilization and Amon Ayesigomwe Rubarema, the secretary for works and transport.

The FDC in fights began a few weeks ago when Ssemujju pinned his party president Amuriat and party Secretary General Nandala Mafabi for accepting money from President Museveni and he revealed that the two are planning to start working with the National Resistance Movement.