KAMPALA: Senior Presidential Advisor and Commander of the Land Forces of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF), Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has revealed the Ugandan opposition in disarray and the best time to defeat it is now.
Muhoozi said this in a tweet that has gone viral in the past one hour of writing this story.
“You and the late Afande Mayombo were always our icons of contrarian views. I’m sure you too must be depressed by the utter debasement of the Ugandan opposition! If I wanted to defeat the opposition in an election this would be the perfect time. They are in total disarray,” Gen. Muhoozi wrote while responding to a tweet from the President of Uganda’s oldest opposition party and former presidential candidate Nobert Mao.
Mao had earlier on responded to Muhoozi’s tweet in which he said of the opposition leader as possessing presidential skills.
“My big brother @norbertmao is the most brilliant opposition leader in Uganda today. He has Presidential skills,” to which Mao retorted: “This tweet has drawn a clear line between those who know and those who understand! I’m glad Muhoozi Kainerugaba doesn’t suffer from generational myopia. You need a wide lens to overcome generational myopia. Otherwise you’ll always be taken by surprise & end up wallowing in victimhood!”
Mao’s tweet promoted Muhoozi’s latest tweet in which he evoked memories of the Late Brig Noble Mayombo, former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs who died in 2005.
Mayombo and Mao were arch political rivals whose face-off as guild contestants of President of the students guild of Makerere University in 1990 is still the most talked about political competition in Uganda’s students politics. Mayombo, then a Second Lieutenant, lost to Mao in a hotly contested election that left two students shot dead in riots that engulfed the university.
The two continued in public life where Mao pursued civilian political life while Mayombo eked a career in the military.
Arguably brilliant, pundits always alluded to another round of face-off between in the country’s presidential contest.
“Uganda does not have an opposition. The so-calledopposition are gagged in myopic affairs and entangled in a swirl of greed. Am sure seasoned politicians like Mao shall agree. #LetsBuildUG,” wrote twitter activist @jordan_posts in reply to Muhoozi.
@KemigishaZoe worte: “You’re 100% right Greatest General since opposition have reached to an extent of endorsing an ideologically bankrupt & a drug addict #Bobiwine . If they continue behaving in this way, you will win by 95% in the 2026 elections!”
More tweets encouraging the General have been pouring in, not least:
@AyenyAngulo to Mao: Those quislings work at cross-purposes, poaching one another, scattered formations, morally debased,…ad nauseam. I wish Chairman Mao was on side; we haven’t been able to optimize his extraordinary attributes. Afande CLF, we’re looking ahead Thumbs up, to you..Thumbs up
@MKatungi said of Muhoozi: The question no longer if but when to defeat the opposition.We as early flowers declare the arrival of spring hereby proclaim that it will no longer tarry but will suddenly come to pass.And all shall peace loving people shall Amen to it!.
@shaffsebunya assured Muhoozi: Thanks, General. This is the right time to defeat the weak opposition. The Generation is behind you.
@JallyKarungi told Mao: I laugh at those who think they can defeat GenMK (Muhoozi) in any battle, Military or political. With the current disorganisation in the opposition, they themselves wouldn’t vote themselves against MK in a political contest. What they are doing now is a fight for supremacy at the bottom.
Away from his military duties, Gen Muhoozi, who is also a son to ruling president Yoweri Museveni, has lately upped his ante in diplomacy and political commentary, leading to many Ugandans to confirm that he is indeed the heir apparent as the Ugandan leader completes 41 years in power in 2026.He is being credited for breaking the icy relations between Uganda and Rwanda when he visited President Paul Kagame. Kagame responded by reopening the common border point between the two countries, an entry and exit point he closed three years ago.
As the East African reported this week saying by doing all these, Muhoozi is emerging out his father’s shadow, pundits believe the twitter friendly fire between him and Mao might be an attempt to forge an alliance between the north (Mao’s homeland) and the South (Muhoozi’s major base).