The opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party will soon be officially admitted back to the Inter Party Organization for Dialogue (IPOD) framework which it had recently quit, arguing it was being used as tool by the incumbent president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to realize his political interests domestically and internationally.
The NUP’s self-proclaimed departure from the IPOD was triggered by the amendment passed by parliament in the Political Parties and Organization Act in May 2025, closing the funding opportunity against any political party that does not participate in its activities.
Blazer News Times has exclusively learnt that the admission will take place after the NUP team has fulfilled all the requirements as set out under the new legal instrument for any potential interested framework candidate.
Reliable sources have confirmed to the Blazer New Times that efforts by the current IPOD summit chairperson Nobert Mao are underway to ensure that the main opposition party officially gets back to the IPOD platform.
To actualize that, Mao also the DP president general and minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs that supervises the IPOD fund distributing body- the national Electoral Commission (EC), despite his frost relationship with the NUP leadership, has moved to prepare his letter that should inform how the Makerere Kavule based party leadership be procedurally admitted back. According to our sources.
DP Mao’s political rivalry with NUP’s Bobi Wine spans from the approach through which president Museveni who has ruled Uganda for 40 years after toppling the past regime, should quit power, with Mao opting for dialogue while Bobi Wine to push him away forcefully through elections.
His intervention comes as the NUP secretary general David Lewis Rubongoya has just affirmed the party’s interest to sign an MOU with IPOD in his October 7th 2025 letter to the IPOD council secretary.
Sources say that chairman Mao has already accepted to arrange a meeting of the IPOD summit leaders to officially admit the NUP as soon as all the necessary protocols have been fulfilled.
The NUP’s change of stance regarding the IPOD framework also gives an edge to Mao whose aspiration has always been mobilizing the citizens to push together with him an agenda of ushering the country into peaceful transfer of power from the NRM’s president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to another leader through an inclusive dialogue by all stake holders including the opposition political actors, according to our sources.
The IPOD summit organ is composed of the political party leaders from all the member parties including; JEEMA, DP, FDC, NRM, UPC and PPP.
This means that when the summit convenes, the NUP team to the IPOD will be led by its president Bobi who will face off with his political rival Museveni, Mao and FDC’s Amuriat Oboi and Nandala Mafabi.
