John Sebaana Kizito, (pictured) the former President General of the Democratic Party is no longer a member of the party following his leadership of the faction that organised a delegates’ conference in Mbale over the weekend.

Sebaana was expelled from the party a day to the Delegates Conference he organised and presided over in Mbale, which the main party organ - the National Executive Committee deemed unconstitutional and illegal.

In its February 17 emergency meeting held at Christ the King Church in Kampala, the National Executive Committee, resolved to sack Sebaana for gross indiscipline which the party said has undermined its unity and integrity.

The party resolved that: “Mr. Sebaana, who has been the President of the Democratic Party is expelled from the Membership of the Democratic Party and his Vice President (Rainer Kafiire) takes over as acting president until the next National Delegates Conference.”

Sebaana was expelled from the party together with Isa Kikungwe former Secretary General Mathias Nsubuga whose claim to the position was nullified  by court. The party’s emergency NEC meeting appointed Juliet Rainer Kafiire to be acting as President General.

In a press release signed by the party chairman Prof. Joseph Mukiibi, Secretary General Lulume Bayiga and the acting President General Rainer Kafiire, Sebaana has violated the party’s constitution by convening a delegates’ conference contrary to advice from the party’s main authority – NEC.

According to most high ranking officials of the party, the February 18 Delegates Conference held in Mbale, which elected a new executive headed by Gulu District Chairman Norbert Mao as President General, was illegal and broke the party’s constitution.

As of February 17, the party declared a state of emergency during which it resolved to hold monthly or even day to day meetings to review the situation.

 “Mr. Sebaana has inexplicably messed up the party’s ideological orientation and thereby frustrating the party’s global conservative ideological partners and severing the party from its long ideological friends,” said a statement signed by NEC leaders.

Following what the party admits is a grave situation of confusion, DP’s NEC has decided to postpone its National Delegates Conference to April 24, 2010 from the February 26th date that had earlier been set.

The Party is organising a national assembly scheduled to take place on Sunday February 28, in Kampala to chat a way forward ahead of the National Delegates Conference on April 24.. blog comments powered by Disqus

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