{"id":5813,"date":"2018-09-25T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2018-09-25T18:19:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:19:45","slug":"muntu-quits-fdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/25\/muntu-quits-fdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Muntu Quits FDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former FDC President, Rtd Gen Mugisha Muntu has announced that he has quit Forum for Democratic Change Party with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Muntu\u2019s departure from FDC comes after he held a meeting that ended prematurely with FDC president Patrick Amuriat.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting held at Fairway hotel was cut short when a group of rowdy youth disrupted the meet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A section of the youth are against this meeting, what we need to appreciate is that Muntu&#8217;s activities were not sanctioned by the party,&#8221; Amuriat said before being whisked away by the youth.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement that is circulating on Social Media, Muntu says through his consultations, he was advised to quit FDC.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fellow Ugandans, following our nationwide consultations that were carried out between 15\/1\/2018 and 7\/9\/2018, I today held a meeting with party president of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Hon. Patrick Oboi Amuriat to discuss our findings and resolutions. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I hereby would like to inform the country of our decision to leave the FDC with immediate effect. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We will be holding a press conference on Thursday the 27 th of September 2018 to discuss this and our future plans in detail. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>God bless you all. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Maj. Gen. (rtd) Mugisha Muntu<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;ve always been a firm believer in following one&#8217;s principles. One such principle is honesty. Today, one of our team members erroneously and prematurely released a draft statement to the public. I apologise for that. Please find attached, our official position<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CountryBeforeSelf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CountryBeforeSelf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mt98WpbyDR\">pic.twitter.com\/Mt98WpbyDR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mugisha Muntu (@mugishamuntu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mugishamuntu\/status\/1044603043751366656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former FDC President, Rtd Gen Mugisha Muntu has announced that he has quit Forum for Democratic Change Party with immediate effect. Muntu\u2019s departure from FDC comes after he held a meeting that ended prematurely with FDC president Patrick Amuriat. The meeting held at Fairway hotel was cut short when a group of rowdy youth disrupted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":5814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,99],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}