Apollo Milton Obote

UPC President Olara Otunnu is another northerner who was foreign minister under the late President Milton Obote and then a United Nations diplomat...

He styles himself as a human-rights defender in the north but the UPC’s legacy remains abysmal and government officials accuse Otunnu of presiding over atrocities when he was Milton Obote’s foreign minister...

He ended the 50-year grip of the late President Milton Obote’s family on the Uganda People’s Congress by defeating Obote’s son MP Jimmy Akena Obote in the race to replace Obote’s widow Miria Kalule Obote as party leader...

National elections can be won only with strong support either from Buganda in the south-west or from the Acholi and Langi people of the north and east who tend to support the Uganda People's Congress and Museveni's ageing and exiled rival ex-President (twice) Milton Obote...

Museveni claimed that Otunnu had participated in killings in the Luwero triangle; he was Uganda's Ambassador to the UN while Museveni was leading a guerrilla insurgency against President Milton Obote's United People's Congress regime in Kampala...

He comes from Bushenyi once a hotbed of support for former President Milton Obote...

Catholicism is widespread in Acholiland and the neglect of Catholic areas since the downfall of President Apollo Milton Obote underlies Acholi grievances...

Alit served in Milton Obote's army and made little contribution to previous talks beyond complaining of 20 years of Museveni's 'duplicity'...

Northerners have resented Museveni since he pushed out their sons-of-the-soil Idi Amin Dada and Apollo Milton Obote...

Among the rejected independents were the formidable but vacillating Miria Matembe - former NRM minister former FDC member - who finally ran under her own banner and the former UPC troublemaker Cecilia Ogwal defeated by Jimmy Akena son of her deceased enemy President Apollo Milton Obote...

The violent regimes of Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada stir raw memories thanks to constant reminders from Museveni...