The National Resistance Movement party leadership has given disgruntled party members one week to reconsider their intention to stand as independents.

NRM official have met at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi and advised losers of party primaries to seek opportunities that may available after the elections.

NRM leader, Yoweri Museveni Kaguta

This follows a huge trend of NRM losers who have decided to compete as independent candidates because they were not satisfied with the results of the NRM primary elections.

Most of the aggrieved members in different parts of Uganda are however not ready to compromise saying the NRM primaries where full of illegalities and malpractice.

The NRM secretariat has asked the losers to step aside for their main candidate that was declared the official NRM flag bearer for each constituency within one week or reconsider their positions within the party.

The contested NRM elections are threatening to divide the party in the 2011 general elections where the ruling party is struggling to keep off stiff opposition challenge for many seats.

By Mugisa Mathias