By Richard Wanambwa ,The Citizen Correspondent
In Summary
In his latest book, Prof Bukenya comes off less
inhibited and makes some startling revelations about his interactions
with his boss, President Museveni.
Kampala. President Yoweri
Museveni asked Gilbert Bukenya to quit the 2011 race for the NRM
Secretary General slot or lose his position as vice president.
Prof Bukenya reveals this in his new book titled “In the Corridors to Power” which Sunday Monitor has a pre-release copy.
The former vice president on Tuesday shocked the
ruling NRM party establishment when he climbed the podium and campaigned
for Opposition DP candidate Brenda Nabukenya in the Luweero Woman MP
by-election instead of rooting for his party’s candidate Rebecca
Nalwanga. The opposition candidate won the seat by a landslide. This is
the second book in which the former vice president is documenting his
political journey. The first, titled Through the Intricate Corridors to
Power was published in 2008 by Fountain Publishers and largely dwelt on
his humble beginnings as a peasant child and skirted around the
political controversies understandably because he was still a member of
the executive.
In his latest book, Prof Bukenya comes off less
inhibited and makes some startling revelations about his interactions
with his boss, President Museveni.
One incident he dwells on is the events in 2009
which he describes as “perhaps the most formative” one for his political
life at the vice presidency. He says, that year, he made a decision to
run for the slot of Secretary General of the National Resistance
Movement (NRM) party that many scoffed at or at the very least, were
puzzled by.
Prof Bukenya says at one time, he felt stuck as
vice president because the office of the vice presidency is to a large
extent a ceremonial one and as months and years went on, he found
himself increasingly limited to roles that were of less value and
useless to the nation.
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