{"id":7784,"date":"2019-01-24T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T14:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=7784"},"modified":"2019-01-24T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T15:56:08","slug":"president-besigye-loyalists-bitter-as-smiling-winnie-byanyima-meets-refers-to-museveni-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/24\/president-besigye-loyalists-bitter-as-smiling-winnie-byanyima-meets-refers-to-museveni-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;President&#8217; Besigye Loyalists Bitter As Smiling Winnie Byanyima Refers To Museveni As President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fans of former presidential candidate, Kizza Besigye have been thrown into a dilemma after wife of the former FDC President met and referred to Museveni as president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most Besigye loyalists are found or referring to Besigye as their &#8216;president&#8217; from the term &#8216;peoples president&#8217; that emerged following the 2016 general elections which most Besigye loyalists claim he won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winnie, who also doubles as the Oxfam International&#8217;s Executive Director met President Museveni at the World Economic Forum (WEF) underway in Davos, Switzerland where the two discussed issues ranging from regional  integration; promoting peace &amp; security in East &amp; Horn of Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Davos2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Davos2019<\/a>, today I met <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Uganda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Uganda<\/a> President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KagutaMuseveni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KagutaMuseveni<\/a> &amp; discussed regional integration; promoting peace &amp; security in East &amp; Horn of Africa. We agreed that ordinary people need economic integration &amp; will increasingly push their leaders to build a common market. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6KMaVxIWBN\">pic.twitter.com\/6KMaVxIWBN<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Winnie Byanyima (@Winnie_Byanyima) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Winnie_Byanyima\/status\/1088229325441253376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We agreed that ordinary people need  economic integration &amp; will increasingly push their leaders to build a common market,&#8221; Winnie tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most Besigye loyalists have been silent on the meeting with sources claiming they are burning with rage over the development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of former presidential candidate, Kizza Besigye have been thrown into a dilemma after wife of the former FDC President met and referred to Museveni as president. Most Besigye loyalists are found or referring to Besigye as their &#8216;president&#8217; from the term &#8216;peoples president&#8217; that emerged following the 2016 general elections which most Besigye loyalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":7786,"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":[98,458],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-7784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784","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=7784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7805,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784\/revisions\/7805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}