Uganda, April 16 -- Newly elected legislators from the National Unity Platform (NUP) party will convene today at Jinja Nile Resort Hotel for the first time since the January 14 General Election.

Sources close to NUP told Daily Monitor that the agenda will focus on guiding the new MPs on the party's main objective ahead of the swearing-in ceremony in May.

Senior party leaders will also guide fellow MPs on how to take over from the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) as the leaders of the Opposition, the process of appointing the shadow Cabinet, as well as the accountability committee leaders, sources who didn't want to be named so that they could speak freely, said on Wednesday.

According to the sources, top party leaders are in a discussio...