Uganda, April 28 -- When President Museveni was campaigning for Janet Adongo Rose Elau, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate in the Dokolo Woman parliamentary by-election, it wasn't lost on him that he was in the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) turf.

The seat fell vacant after the death of Cecilia Ogwal of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party.

Before her demise earlier this year, Ogwal had represented Dokolo on the FDC ticket since 2006 after she decamped from UPC.

However, it wasn't lost on Museveni that this was very much a backyard of UPC since the party is eternally linked to one of the founders - Apollo Milton Obote - and he was a son of the region.

He stuck to his story of first being a Democratic Party (DP) mem...