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Apollo Milton Obote

Date of Birth: 28/12/1925
Place of Birth: Akokoro village, Apac district, northern Uganda
Died: 10/10/2005


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Making the President nervous

The north's own Uganda People's Congress may take votes in the Lango region home of the long-time party leader and two-term President the late Milton Obote...


Mr and Mrs

Meanwhile the Uganda People's Congress has elected Miria Obote widow of its founder Milton Obote to lead the party in the elections...


Homecomings

First came 80-year-old Apollo Milton Obote leader of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC)...

Even Milton Obote's own supporters were taken aback by the impact of his death and funeral...


Moving the Movement

Equally unready is the UPC whose aged leader former President (Apollo) Milton Obote is a spent force unlikely to return from exile in Zambia; two possible candidates are Henry Mayega and Joseph Pinytek Ochieno...


A tree, a house, a president

For nearly two decades the ruling National Resistance Movement (evolving into 'the Movement' in 1995) has been warning that multiparty politics would send Uganda back into the murderous turmoil that prevailed under (Apollo) Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada...


Milton stays lost

Democratic passions have been revived by ex-President Apollo Milton Obote who announced his return to Uganda after 20 years of exile in Zambia but then said he'd changed his mind...

Museveni blames Milton Obote for massacres in Buganda's Luwero district during the five-year guerrilla war that brought Museveni to power in January 1986...


Who wants to tackle Museveni?

The UPC President former national President Milton Obote casts a long shadow from Zambia where he lives...

The Milton Obote Foundation controls substantial party funds and the Obote cult is as much a part of the UPC as Museveni's is of the NRM...


Now for the contest

But the war has tended to help Museveni's NRM which has exploited it to rally the peoples of central and western Uganda against the fear that the northerners may come back to power as under ex-Presidents Milton Obote Idi Amin Dada and their brief successors...


People's power

Its Treasurer Lira MP Ateng Otim is affiliated to ex-President Milton Obote's Uganda People's Congress (UPC)...


Military muscle, political problems

Bwengye is an old ally of Museveni's who after losing the elections as DP Secretary General in 1980 fled to London to offer chequebook support to the NRM's guerrilla war against Milton Obote's ruling Uganda People's Congress (UPC)...


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