The secretary of People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) has said that coalition 2016 cannot be replicated for the upcoming December presidential election, saying that was meant to effect leadership change but that system change should follow.

Speaking at a news conference at his party’s bureau Mr Sallah said coalition 2016 cannot be replicated because the situation now is different from that of 2016.

“There was just only one dominant political force [and] all other political forces were marginalised and the citizenry had no hope of change. 

“And therefore, we had to build hope by showing that we can build the mass base that could affect the change that the people wanted,” he said.

“Now we are faced with a new situation where change had come through the ballot box but many people are saying: that ‘the change has not brought them what they had desired for themselves’. 

“That’s why we talk about regime change as a change of government.

“But what people are now demanding is a change of system to ensure that their poverty and injustice, and their ignorance would actually be eradicated.”

Reporting by Adama Makasuba