Uganda, March 16 -- Sections of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), including its founding president, the indefatigable Dr Kizza Besigye, are reportedly mulling forming a new political 'outfit', a political party. Wrong idea!

From 2006 to 2021, for what it was worth (not a whole lot, really), the FDC was Uganda's leading opposition party, supplanted by the new kid on the block, the National Unity Platform (NUP) led by Mr Robert Kyagulanyi in the wake of the last election.

NUP was cobbled together at the last minute out of the 'People Power' movement. Its utterly surprising sweep of parliamentary seats in central Uganda catapulted NUP, overnight, into the main opposition party with the legal and constitutional mandate to lead the oppo...