Uganda, April 30 -- Four-time presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye is being fronted as the leader of a new political party formation by majority supporters of a Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party faction.

Mr Harold Kaija, the secretary general of the splinter group, told Monitor on Monday that: "majority of the places we have gone to, people are asking for a political party."

He declined to comment on the preference of Dr Besigye as leader of the new political outfit, saying this was not the subject of consultations.

However, in previous interviews, Mr Kaija had said that from Dr Besigye's home district of Rukungiri and the neighbouring Kabale District in South-western Uganda as well as in Bushenyi in western region and Busoga...