Mbabazi Wins This Round, But Must Watch His Back.

Byline: Charles Onyango-Obbo

Ever since Amama Mbabazi routed Vice President Gilbert Bukenya and Trade Minister Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire for the ruling NRM's secretary-generalship at last week's party elections, the political obituary writers have been busy.

Mbabazi's resounding win, on the surface, gave him a huge boost and, particularly, Bukenya's miserable performance has left him exposed, the writers say. All that is left now is for Mbabazi to ride in and finish off the wounded Bukenya and Otafiire. Mbabazi is a very unemotional and bare-knuckled operator, so you could say Bukenya and Otafiire were begging for a beating.

But they are not finished. It might seem like a contradiction, but if President Yoweri Museveni had been …