By Cedric Mwesigwa.
In July 2025, the Common Man’s Party (CMP) whose current president is the former Kawempe South MP Mubarak Munyagwa was unveiled with just a very short time to the campaigns leading up to the 2026 Uganda’s general elections.
At its launch, the CMP party leaders formerly known as the Uganda Economic Party (UEP) displayed a silver platter locally to mean Lusaniya being its symbol, metaphorically joining electors and leaders in the gesture of sharing the cake together.
Munyagwa was named its acting president while Moses Bigirwa secretary general with its offices opening at Jacaranda-Lubaga Municipality in Kampala capital.
Rationalizing why he had not joined the National Unity Platform (NUP), Munyagwa who had spent longtime agitating for Dr. Kiiza Besigye’s patronized Peoples Front for Freedom political formation breakaway from the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) reasoned, that NUP was badly being managed, thus a need to form a new political vehicle to shape politics.
Understandably, the narrative that informed Munyagwa’s exit from FDC party was the alleged mismanagement which its administration dismissed arguing, they were simply running away from internal electoral competitions upon sensing that they could not win them.
However, with less than a year since its introduction, this news Website has exclusively learnt from sources that all is not well at the CMP.
According to the sources, the party offices remain in closure by the premise’s owner since early 2026, arising from the failed fulfillment of meeting rental obligation.
It has also emerged from the sources familiar with the CMP internal affairs that there is a sharp dispute between the party president Munyagwa and his secretary general Bigirwa, something that has added more salt into an injury.
Sources allege that failure by the two leaders to agree on amicable modus operand of managing the party resources is the born of the dispute.
When reached out to comment on the matter, the CMP secretary general Bigirwa however described the claims as false before he could cut short our call.
Efforts to seek a comment from Munyagwa were futile as his phone contact could not go through by the time this news report was compiled.
