Uganda, April 23 -- News coming out of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC;) the leading Ugandan opposition political party from about 2004 to 2021, is that they have been split because of money.

The founding party President Dr. Kizza Besigye has walked off with one party, now known as the Katonga Road group. Patrick Amuriat Oboi, the current party president; accused of being compromised by huge money from the ruling NRM, is steadying the ship at the party headquarters in Najjanankumbi.

What started with so much promise in 1999 when Besigye wrote a lengthy critical missive about Museveni and NRM now almost lies in the realm of total failure.

Besigye captured the imagination of many of the generation that had grown up or lived imbibing...