The first runner up for the National Unity Platform party, Joseph Mayanja alias Dr. Chameleone has this morning called upon his party to consider him the default flag bearer for the Lord Mayoral position which is now vacant following Latiff Ssebaggala’s eventual exit from the race on Tuesday.
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Addressing swipes of journalists at his defacto conference held at his Balintuma road based offices in Rubaga, Chameleone urged the NUP party to consider him the default flag bearer. He says that he has already written to the NUP secretariat to reconsider him as the default flag bearer. According to his taskforce head and former NUP electoral committee member, Samuel Walter Lubega Mukaaku, Chameleone is to entice the party into declaring him the flag bearer.
Sources we contacted in the NUP secretariat say much as they have received Chameleone’s request, it will not be automatic that he will hold the party flag in the Lord Mayor race. “Yes we received Mayanja’s petition but we are still assessing a few things. As the party, we shall communicate our next course of action any time soon,” the source told this reporter on phone. “But considering his post-vetting comments and by the virtue that he had declined to concede defeat as he announced his advancement as an independent candidate, it projected him to have held parallel motives. So his chances to take our flat are minimal,” he adds.
The party spokesperson, Joel Ssenyonyi earlier said that Latiff’s decision was personal and not the position of the party. He further rubbished claims that they had held talks with the opposition FDC party to consider leaving the seat for the incumbent Erias Lukwago.