It's complicated fairly, probably not in a couple of years but at the time when he would, anyone can. Shockingly though, if he did, it would be because of popularity (populist politics) and despair not because he is fit.
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See, Ugandans are tired and they are desperate. Don't believe how the youth relate to him, I consider myself very youthful and most of the time I always get what the dude is saying in his speeches or debates or press releases.He speaks like a natural-born leader or An Alpha male
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I give him credit though for being able to pull crowds using his celeb status, spin stories, take full advantage of media such as news and TV plus social media. It is like he is borrowing all his tricks right out of the CIA Handbook on taking down or shaking up stubborn regimes.
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He has a way of pleasing the crowds and getting them fired up by mostly re-emphasising, “we need change”, “people power, our power”, “we are the youth”, etc. I know I'm going to get a lot of heat for being one of the few people who think Bobi isn't yet a capable presidential candidate or fit to take over the nation, but hear me out.
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He is doing what all the opposition members have been doing for all the past years especially Dr. Kizza Besigye and that is using the same old criticism, playing on people's fears, popularity and trying so hard to please the people.
We need a candidate who actually cares about the country, not presidency, not being popular, sympathy or being in power in any way. And we can know this by the things they do and their statement.
A good leader would be someone who stands up and criticises everyone including fellow opposition, but also offers solutions even to the very government he/she is opposing. How often have you heard any presidential candidate talk about the serious predicaments and promises things such as:
- The state of despair in hospitals such as Mulago and how a referral/public hospital which is supposed to offer free and the best medical care is almost as expensive as private hospitals. Maybe we should start subsidising, training more doctors and building ethics. Too many people are dying in several national hospitals and that's terrible but the person says, maybe we should do this and that. Copy code snippet
- How we have only one city in Uganda and that's Kampala. Maybe we should grow another town into a city in northern, western and Eastern Uganda.
- Education is becoming too expensive, kindergarten and primary schools are charging ugx 1 million - 2 million which to put in perspective is around the same money you pay per semester at Makerere university for some courses. Solution? Maybe the ministry regulates the schools since a little bee whispered that they don't pay Value Added Tax or tax on properties.
And so much more. I'm not saying Bobi Wine can't improve and become the right candidate, but he needs to re-strategise and be more flexible.
He also needs to put a lot of effort on winning over rural areas, because despite common thought a lot of people deep down in villages don't watch TV and they don't know what is happening out there or what life is like in the city. To them Museveni is still there hero and liberator and they support him and a large chunk votes for him.
If we are to go by the last population statistics, the people in the rural areas accounted for more than 70 - 80% of Uganda's population yet most candidates before 2018 never bothered to put effort there. They always focused on the about 30% in urban areas and automatically thought they have the majority support.
Anyway, those are my thoughts and they are heavily opinionated based on my analysis of things. Hope it answers your question.
